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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Short_Ad5978 on 2026-08-18 18:49:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JasonNotBorn on 2026-08-18 17:21:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/NeedVideoMade on 2026-08-18 01:29:37+00:00.

I'm working on getting my house to respond to me as if I was on the Enterprise. I've created a local workflow that can get the computer to say anything I want with decent accuracy although I am still figuring out some issues.

Examples https://pastewaves.com/player/9d75e2c3-9ae5-45c8-8e8b-9a751a94f5d6 Transcript: "This audio file has been determined to be a work of fiction"

https://pastewaves.com/player/5e5b0184-a48b-4641-a8c8-62ed1f625584 "Your sleep cycle was suboptimal. Efficiency may be compromised today."

https://pastewaves.com/player/f9979073-97b8-4f71-8bc6-6bf3e5a9f379 "Appliance cycle complete. The dishwasher has been deactivated."

The borg is significantly harder, and not every phrase comes out clean: https://pastewaves.com/player/717b7037-4cc7-4278-868c-92777b8c03e1 "You have entered grid Trek of sub-junction Reddit"

When I have time I have to build the ability to speak and be spoken to in real time. Stay tuned!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Djent_ on 2026-08-18 05:43:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2026-08-17 13:26:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/xDaftTurtle on 2026-08-18 05:19:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Ok_Resolve1769 on 2026-08-17 22:12:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/That_Cheek_8690 on 2026-08-17 18:00:47+00:00.

I’m setting up my first apartment and I’m pretty tech-savvy. I’ll also be setting up Home Assistant, so I’m wondering which appliances are actually worth buying smart.

Would you recommend buying smart appliances from the start, or is it better to buy normal ones and make them smart yourself with sensors/DIY solutions? (Freezer, fridge, oven, washing machine, etc.)

I’m especially interested in:

• Which smart appliance has been genuinely useful?
• Which one do you regret buying smart?
• Where is the extra money for a smart appliance simply not worth it?
• Is there anything you can’t really replicate with DIY sensors?
• What would you definitely buy smart again?

Would love to hear your experiences :)

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/LESGuy on 2026-08-17 18:17:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/brahmy on 2026-08-17 17:47:28+00:00.

I've been using HA for ages, when I moved into a new house two years ago I rebuilt everything from scratch. I've got ~50 Z-Wave nodes; mostly light switches (Inovelli & Zooz), smart plugs, door sensors, and leak detectors.

Everything in the new house worked... Mostly. Spouse Acceptance Factor was good, but often scenes wouldn't quite apply, Inovelli status LEDs would get stuck in mismatched states, and nothing ever felt snappy or truly responsive.

After months of working through issues everything is finally awesome, incredibly responsive, and SAF is through the roof. I'm sharing my learnings as (in my opinion) these are more practical things to check than the AI-generated suggestions that steer you right towards signal strength and dBms and communication pathways.

Here are my learnings:

The controller makes a big difference. The first thing I did was upgrade my Zooz controller stick to the ZWA-2. This significantly improved responsiveness and measurably improved dropped messages and "controller jammed" states. But after a few days it was clear that I still had systemic issues and this wasn't the (only) fix.

Chatty devices increase network load. Find them and dial back reporting. I'm interested in energy monitoring so I had configured some plugs to update every second. This generated a huge amount of traffic. The easiest way to identify chatty devices I found: to open zwavejs, set log level to debug, capture 30-60 seconds, and paste the logs into AI asking it to identify bad actors and chatty devices. Then fix those nodes. Keep doing this until you get a period of a few minutes without overactive devices.

Sloppy multicast to devices bogs down the network. I update the LEDs on a dozen Inovelli switches based on door states, water leaks, and more. My original HA LED update script was set mode:restart, meaning that every state change of devices in my house was triggering a massive amount of Zwave multicast traffic. To fix this I added debouncing logic in HA (which is mode:restart) to reduce the number of LED update commands sent, and changed the LED transmitting script to mode:queued to prevent currently-active commands from being interrupted. Huge, huge improvements after catching this. (here are my Inovelli scripts for those curious)

Excessive Z-Wave device refreshing from HA is unnecessary. Because my Z-Wave network was slow, some devices occasionally failed to update. To fix this I built logic to force-refresh values of key devices on an interval. After fixing everything else above, these forced refreshes were not only unnecessary, but removing them further improved network performance.

Device association groups are hugely under-rated and under-discussed. I read about the ZigBee equivalent in this sub and ended up building point-to-point association groups across all of my key light switches. These mirror my most-used HA shortcuts and scenes (double-click up/down to turn a whole floor of the house on/off) and now our most important stuff works in the rare cases where HA or the controller is down. It may be my imagination, but this made everything feel even snappier and responsive.

Bonus: Catch silent failures by monitoring the device "last seen" time in HA. This doesn't affect network performance, but while troubleshooting I found a critical battery device (door sensor on a freezer) had silently died. Zwavejs and HA thought it was sleeping with a full battery, but it hadn't been "seen" in months. I now generate an alert any time any device's "last seen" exceeds one day.

Hopefully this post helps someone else because again, these aren't the first suggestions that come up when searching for Z-Wave optimization tips.

AI disclosure: I don't use AI to write text (even though I bold first sentences!). Everything in my linked Inovelli script repo was figured out manually over time but improved lots more recently with AI. I used lots of AI for troubleshooting along the way.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jdigi78 on 2026-08-17 13:57:43+00:00.

In celebration of adding the biggest missing feature, I made a video about my experience creating an ESPHome component to support the Litter Robot 4's smart features without the cloud. 100% local control without compromise!

You can find the code and firmware flashing guide here: https://codeberg.org/Joseph-DiGiovanni/esphome-litter-robot

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/addingvalue2000 on 2026-08-17 12:39:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Eelviny on 2026-08-17 11:52:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Mysterious-Bowler15 on 2026-08-17 11:26:36+00:00.

I create an welcome dashboard with order form in HA for our B&B guests to compose there personal breakfast, when the order is completed it's send the list to my mobile phone and wall panel in the kitchen. Guests can change the order till 22:00 PM and the list will be erased when the guests check out the next day or at 11:00 AM

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/prestomation on 2026-08-16 22:30:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Lloytron on 2026-08-16 23:33:06+00:00.

Thought I'd just share a little story of my family discussions tonight! I've been a HA user for years, mainly with fairly basic automations and tinkering and stuff. I've tried to show my family but they aren't at all bothered as long as everything works. I marked this as show and tell but there's not much to show except being a proud nerd dad 😄

Tonight my son said he wanted a light in his room that changed brightness and colour during the day, and asked if we could buy one.

"No need, your light can already do that" and I told him we could set it up easily in Home Assistant.

He didn't want to use "that rubbish" and wanted to use the Hue app. Told him it wouldn't work as I've got rid of the Hue hub.

"But I want to build a flow chart of different conditions"

"Hue can't do that anyway. But Home Assistant can"

And I showed him C.A.F.E. He had a little play and then I saw him have the epiphany when his eyes lit up!

He spent the next three hours combing over all my dashboards, entities and automations. He literally asked "How have you done all this?!"

I now have a new admin and a Home Assistant convert!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Delannoytheo on 2026-08-16 18:39:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/toytank on 2026-08-16 06:39:56+00:00.

Hey everyone,

We just bought a new house, and I figured this is the perfect time to build out a smart home setup.

I’ve set up Home Assistant OS on an old laptop for now to play around with and learn the ropes.

Devices I currently have and want to set up:

Orbit B-hyve sprinkler system

Hatch sound machines (x2 for the kids)

Roborock robot vacuum

Smart locks

Smart thermostat

Ambient Weather Station

Wishlist:

Cameras & Floodlights

Lights (hue?)

UniFi ecosystem (upcoming Smoke & CO alarms and air quality sensor)

What are your favorite automations or devices for a household with 2 young kids and a dog?

What are your absolute "must-have" smart devices or local integrations that you can't live without now?

Appreciate any advice, tips, or favorite integrations you can share for someone starting fresh!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Estul on 2026-08-16 18:35:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mellowbalmyleafy on 2026-08-16 14:36:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2026-08-16 12:15:30+00:00.

A couple of weeks ago I shared a comparison of 12 of the most popular Zigbee temperature and humidity sensors I could find online. Someone asked me in the comments for low-temperature data, basically how these sensors would perform in winter or low-temperature conditions.

As it's summer here, I only had one real option: stick them in my fridge, on the shelf right under the eggs.

12 Zigbee sensors in my fridge + a calibrated BLE sensor

Before anyone gets mad or something: I'm fully aware none of these sensors are waterproof and none of them are meant to live in a fridge. But since it's summer here, that was the only cold option I had available. My fridge is set to 5°C and cycles naturally, going up to about 8°C before the compressor kicks in and drops it back below 5°C, roughly once an hour.

My first issue was connectivity. The fridge nearly drowned out my Zigbee mesh completely. My coordinator was sitting about 6 to 7 meters away, and stacking every sensor on top of each other sure didn't help either. I ended up moving the coordinator temporarily to about 1.5 meters from the fridge, which gave me solid LQI across the board and allowed me to collect the data reliably. The BLE sensor also had trouble advertising outside the fridge, I also had to move a bluetooth proxy closer to be able to capture its readings.

Here's what I found:

Least accurate in the cold: ThirdReality 3RTHS0224Z, Tuya UZ-01T, Tuya TH01, Tuya IH-K009 and eWeLink TH03YZ consistently read higher than my benchmark sensor. The ThirdReality was the worst offender, choppy reporting with gaps up to 6 hours between updates, even after replacing the batteries. The Tuya UZ-01T followed the trend of the cooling cycle fine, but consistently read the highest temperature of the whole group.

least accurate temp sensors

Most accurate in the cold: Aqara WSDCGQ11LM, SONOFF SNZB-02B, SONOFF SNZB-02P, Zemismart TS0201, Moes ZSS-S01-TH, Tuya TH09Z and Tuya ZTH02. The Zemismart occasionally dipped below 4°C at the bottom of the fridge cycle but follwed the climb back up pretty accurately. All 12 followed the fridge's cycle closely, so the real differentiator was stable connectivity and reporting rate rather than raw accuracy.

most accurate temp sensors

Humidity in the fridge: ThirdReality 3RTHS0224Z, Tuya TH09Z and Tuya ZTH02 were the worst here too. The ThirdReality again had abysmal reporting, even though it reported a solid LQI in Zigbee2MQTT. the Tuya TH09Z had the worst accuracy of the whole group. Everything else reported close to my benchmark sensor, humidity was actually more consistent across all of them than temperature was.

humidity graph

Summary: If you actually need a sensor for a fridge or freezer long term, don't use any of these, none of them are designed for that kind of humidity and condensation. You'll likely kill the electronics very fast. You are better off using a Dallas probe sensor, something like a DIY ESP32 device or the Sonoff SNZB-02LD. This was purely a test to see how each one handles temperatures outside its comfort zone, not a real-world recommendation. If you are just looking for a good sensor that can perform reliably in low-temperatures without condensation, pick one of the Sonoffs and be done with it.

For anyone interested in the full article from earlier, you can find it here:

12 Zigbee Temperature Sensors Compared in Home Assistant

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Far_Set7950 on 2026-08-16 02:02:32+00:00.

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