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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/peppebytes on 2026-08-06 10:22:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/meatbox on 2026-08-06 02:01:03+00:00.

I've been working (claude helped, and got in the way alot) on using these these ~7-10 year old echo dots as voice assistants (and more), since I found out these devices can be rooted.

an installer + service that turns them into ESPHome discoverable devices and exposes:

• 2x voice assistant pipelines, w/ on-device wake words
• standard HA media_player element for audio playback
• full led ring (and per segment) control (added a bunch of animations because why not)
• can pretend to be a white noise machine
• lux sensor

github

plus an optional custom integration that has a dashboard, allows you to manage wake words, shows turn history, and some other settings that were kind of messy to do in esphome directly.

github

all still pretty early, but is functional, and these devices can be had for <$10 on ebay (and I had one sitting in a drawer since 2018).

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hrf3420 on 2026-08-06 01:26:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/chrico031 on 2026-08-03 16:52:37+00:00.

Why are seemingly all smart locks WiFi or Thread or Z-Wave these days? I really hate having a separate system just for my door locks when I already have a solid Zigbee network powering my entire home.

Anyone come across a good Zigbee smart lock they recommend?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jefsmk on 2026-08-04 03:03:53+00:00.

Been using OpenHAB for over a decade +. Looked at HA years ago but for some reason didn’t like it. Well, just bought a new house so I’m starting over, and holy shit is HA amazing! I’m only a few days in, but with a few dozen devices installed so far, I’m seeing the power.

The dashboards are amazing… all the fine grained info of each device at your fingertips… the clean scripting (both graphical and via code) this is all so fun!

And built in historical status of my garage door opens/close is awesome. I spent days trying to code that in OH. Built right in here. For some reason my wife doesn’t understand why this is so exciting.

Trying to go 100% matter, and expect to have a couple hundred devices when all said and done.

So happy to be here finally!!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nurunet on 2026-08-03 12:10:03+00:00.

For a while now, I have been planning to install a tablet on the living room wall to display a Home Assistant dashboard. Now I'm starting to wonder if it would really add a lot of value. All lights can also be switched on and off with physical buttons. Room thermostats allow controlling the temperature. For other things, my smartphone will be closer to me 99% of the time.

The tablet could be useful to show the feeds of two (so far) IP cameras and a family calendar, but otherwise...?

What killer applications do you have for permanently installed dashboards?