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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/criterion67 on 2026-03-16 21:40:14+00:00.

I was a little skeptical when I first heard about it but I went ahead and installed it, and over the past couple of weeks I've been pretty amazed by what it can do.

My Home Assistant instance is over three years old and felt pretty cluttered. Claude helped me clean it up by:

• Reviewing my logs and flagging any issues that needed attention, in order of importance
• Locating and removing stale entities, including orphaned adn unused devices, helpers, and scripts
• Consolidating and removing duplicate or unused automations
• Reorganizing my labeling schema
• Review my backups as they were getting pretty large. They went from 2.7 GB to consistently under 550 MB. It also added entity exclusions for chatty devices and ran a forced purge calledrecorder.purge with repac: trueto immediately compact the database and apply the new filters
• Creating a mobile dashboard based on my tablet dashboard, but better formatted for a phone

Earlier today I had it read the release notes for the 2026.3.2 core update to check if anything affected my setup. It gave me a complete summary of everything relevant to my configuration. After I installed the update, I had it check my system health and flag any breaking changes or other issues. I've attached a couple of screenshots to give better context.

https://preview.redd.it/7qs1q5ek8hpg1.png?width=699&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b2ea29e2c31d9c4c218d6602d284538f4ed7155

https://preview.redd.it/58m1n5ek8hpg1.png?width=743&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f364c001ec2ebde72ef72d8d7ff895b16bd20f6

If anyone is interested, here's the Github repo for the MCP Server.

Edited to add a little more info.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Annadiane01 on 2026-03-16 22:01:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/robsonrob on 2026-03-16 18:07:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bradcrc on 2026-03-16 17:19:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bieremensdorf on 2026-03-16 12:08:57+00:00.

I'm moving into a house later this year and i really want to get into HA. In my apartment right now I only use Hue and a google TV.

Right now I am looking around for presence sensors, thermostats etc.

But no matter what I find, there is always alot of negative reviews about the Brand/Products.

Found a cool sensor from aqara, too bad its shit.

Found a smart plug from eve home, too bad its shit.

etc.

I am having doubts if starting a Smart Home on this level is even a good idea, since apparently all the devices are not really reliable.

So what are devices/brands that you think are actually worth buying?

What devices did not work for you?

Edit: i plan on using mostly zigbee but Thread/Matter is also an option.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/gabzqc on 2026-03-16 08:17:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CyberMage256 on 2026-03-16 00:48:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/w1ww on 2026-03-16 00:49:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/eduard256 on 2026-03-15 18:42:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe on 2026-03-15 22:04:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/johnkhill on 2026-03-15 20:06:22+00:00.

So I've been playing with HA for a couple years. I've got a relatively small setup, with a repurposed laptop as my server and some wifi switches and lights.

I recently installed a Zigbee coordinator and plug. The purpose is to send an in-app notifications on current changes.

I was surprised to receive the notification while away from my home network. Is this not an on-prem / local config? What cloud service could be providing the transport for the notification?

I do not have an HA Cloud account configured.

I did not register the Zigbee controller or plug with their app or cloud account.

I'm scratching my head wondering if I've got a security issue exposing my network unnecessarily.

edit: This is configured in the app settings documentation

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CowsNeedFriendsToo on 2026-03-15 19:59:39+00:00.

This is an embarrassing post, but I’ve been on this group for years now and know that if anyone is going to solve a problem, it’s the people in this group.

I unfortunately have a heart condition that has cause me to black out when I’m on the toilet. This has resulted in me coming to on the floor of the bathroom with my wife over me in a panic talking me back to consciousness before taking me to the hospital. This has happened about once or twice a year. To say the least, this creates a terrible sense of anxiety any time I go to the bathroom. I fear for the day she comes home to find me laying on the floor the final time. Or in the middle of the night when I wake up to use the bathroom.

Here’s where you guys come in. I was wondering if there is a way to set up home assistant along with some sort of a sensor in my bathroom that will be able to tell if I’m on the floor and not moving, which would then send out an alert to her phone along with a noise alert in the bathroom? The key would be making sure it doesn’t go off when just sitting on the toilet, or if she is standing in front of the mirror for an extended period of time doing her makeup.

Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. I truly appreciate your time.

Edit: I already have an Apple Watch Ultra 2. The fall detection seems to only trigger if it’s a fall from standing height. It hasn’t triggered at all when I fall from sitting.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jankysmith on 2026-03-15 19:44:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MissionPrez on 2026-03-15 13:26:08+00:00.

Just wondering.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Disastrous-Ad8476 on 2026-03-15 13:19:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/joshikus on 2026-03-15 10:37:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CallMeDillDog on 2026-03-14 21:27:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/seth_petry_johnson on 2026-03-15 00:37:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/cameraman92 on 2026-03-14 22:03:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/LivelinessphoneT on 2026-03-14 09:26:14+00:00.

my roommate locked himself out taking the trash out at 11pm last night in the freezing rain and i had to leave my shift at work jsut to let him back in. im so done dealing with physical keys and need to buy a smart lock today before i lose my mind but im totally clueless and feeling super stuck.

ive been reading on here and see everyone saying to buy Aqara UWB Smart Lock U400 or Aqara Smart Lock U200 or Schlage Encode Plus. but honestly im really leaning towards August Wi-Fi Smart Door Lock (4th Generation) purely because my local target has it on the shelf right now and the circle shape looks way less bulky on the door.

right now im just swapping out a basic single cylinder deadbolt on my regular wooden front door. i can easily afford the highest end premium option out there but i absolutely hate overpaying for useless extra features if a cheaper average model performs just as well so im purely looking for the best bang for my buck. i just know i dont want a lock that relies entirely on the cloud since id hate for my home routines to instantly break just because my internet or some random server goes down. but im really stuck on the connection part because getting one with standard wifi built inside sounds so easy for controlling it away from home right away but i read it completely ruins the battery life compared to that newer thread matter stuff which is supposed to be super solid for keeping everything local but apparently means i have to go buy a separate smart hub router thing just to get it running?

im honestly ready to pull the trigger right now so what specific model should i just blindly purchase to stop stressing over this?

also literally right before posting this i started wondering what are the actual real world downsides to these things and do they even fit on literally any door?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/gadadenka on 2026-03-14 15:37:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Complete-Thing367 on 2026-03-13 22:48:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-03-14 08:11:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Techno_Bumblebee on 2026-03-14 05:18:13+00:00.

800Mhz in Europe, sounds great for thr many homes with dual brick walls...

"Zigbee 4.0 supports more than 2.4 GHz, and it might finally end the smart home protocol war"

https://www.xda-developers.com/zigbee-40-abandoned-24-ghz-band-end-smart-home-protocol-war/

I would be very interested to know if this is going to work with current Zigbee tech, both routers and devices.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2026-03-14 02:19:34+00:00.

I just released a new version of my doorbell-mqtt-unifi project.

The project lets you control the UniFi G4 Doorbell Pro animations and sounds through MQTT, which makes it easy to automate from Home Assistant.

Some of the improvements include:

• Faster profile updates using an IPC (inter-process communication) apply method
  • Image and sound apply and refresh the doorbell in less than 2 seconds
  • No longer requires restarting processes on the doorbell
• Added a Validate Profile entity in Home Assistant to detect configuration drift from the doorbell restarting and reverting to the UniFi Protect settings
• Added a Reapply last profile entity in Home Assistant
• Ad-hoc sound effects
  • Play sounds effects on the doorbell at anytime
  • Select entity in Home Assistant to select the sound effect to play
• Asset validation and storage guardrails
  • Validates the image and sound files are the right size
  • Checks magic headers of file to validate they are an image and sound file
  • Makes sure you don't exhaust the persistent storage on the doorbell

The Docker container runs on x86-64 and arm64. The C code will also compile on arm64 if you want to run the service without Docker.

Setup guide: https://chrishansen.tech/posts/doorbell-mqtt-unifi-full-setup/

Project repo: https://github.com/ChrisHansenTech/doorbell-mqtt-unifi