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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Dry-Revenue-3479 on 2026-03-22 16:28:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JSTrucker on 2026-03-22 11:22:14+00:00.

Does anyone upload any sensors or information gathered from their home to data gathering sites….. willingly?

For example I have a Geiger counter (radiation [Few months]) on my roof that I send reading to 3 different sites. As well as ADS-B (Aircraft positions [Two years]) to FightRadar24 as well as 3 other places.

I’m just wondering if, what, and how long you have been doing it for

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bukaro on 2026-03-22 12:46:35+00:00.

I kept forgetting my pills. Not dramatically, just the "it's 11pm and oh shit" kind. So I spent way more time building a fix than the problem deserved.

An ESP32 in a 3D printed case sits in my bathroom, hooked up to Home Assistant. A Zigbee vibration sensor on the pill box detects when I take them. Miss 10pm and the LED goes red, HA fires a notification. There's a physical button on the case too for when the sensor misses it.

https://codeberg.org/Buckaroo/PillsReminder/raw/branch/main/img/PXL_20260322_114526910.MP.jpg

https://codeberg.org/Buckaroo/PillsReminder/raw/branch/main/img/PXL_20260322_114532463.MP.jpg

How it works

The ESP32 runs ESPHome and subscribes directly to HA entities. Primary detection is a Zigbee vibration sensor on the pill box. ESPHome picks it up via platform: homeassistant and sets a taken_today flag in NVS so it survives reboots.

LED colours: blue = waiting, off = taken, red = missed. An HA automation triggers at my phone's next alarm time. If pills aren't taken, it turns the LED red and waits 30 minutes. Still not taken, it sends a Pushbullet notification and a Pixel Watch alert. Flag resets at midnight.

Two physical buttons on the case. The OK button is a fallback for when the vibration sensor misses a light touch — press it and taken_today gets set, LED turns off, same as the sensor. The Reset button undoes a false positive: knocked the pill box, something set it off by accident, press Reset and the flag clears, LED goes back to blue. Both fire events to HA so automations stay in sync.

Things I picked up building this:

• ESPHome (love it)
• Basic soldering (survived)
• Fusion360 for the enclosure (still scared of it)
• I will absolutely forget my pills without external intervention

Q: Which sensor? A cheap Tuya Zigbee vibration sensor from AliExpress.

Q: Why the box and buttons if the sensor does the job? Why not. Also buttons.

Code: ESPhome yaml, HA yaml, STLs, wiring, etc: codeberg.org/Buckaroo/PillsReminder

EDIT: PillBox picture https://codeberg.org/Buckaroo/PillsReminder/raw/branch/main/img/pillbox.jpg

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/tinyhurdles on 2026-03-21 19:22:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dr_stutters on 2026-03-22 04:53:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Puzzleheaded_Care156 on 2026-03-21 22:47:13+00:00.

Getting my set up figured out but there are a ton of options for brands to get. I’m leaning towards Aqara but is pricey.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Kdcius on 2026-03-22 00:05:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Bran_Solo on 2026-03-21 18:15:19+00:00.

I'm a few years out of the home automation game and just closed on a new house. It looks like since I've been away, everyone has moved from Hubitat to Home Assistant and there's some great dedicated hardware for it now. Awesome!

When I was last a homeowner I had some Eufy outdoor cameras + floodlights that worked reasonable well, except the people detection could not be used as as trigger for events on other devices. My new home has a very dark driveway area and I'd like to be able to implement some logic like "when a human is detected, ensure that several lights are turned on for at least x seconds after human detection ends" and there's a pretty good chance some of the lights will come from a different ecosystem like Lutron or TP-Link.

I've come up dry with some preliminary research. Is there a go-to camera system recommended for this? I've seen some workarounds to try to get this stuff to work with Eufy but it feels a bit hacky and I'm seeing mixed reports about reliability and latency.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hasntexplodedyet on 2026-03-21 16:30:56+00:00.

Full disclosure up front:

I used Claude Code to write the bulk of this code. I set the architecture, design, and reviewed code that it wrote and conducted significant testing. But this was written by AI tools. I have years of development experience but use AI now to complete projects like this which I simply do not have the time for otherwise.

In order for this tool to function, you will need to provide it Open Router and ElevenLabs API keys, and it needs to generate LLM / gen AI content.

This post was not written by AI. Real human here.

TL;DR: This app enables you to turn your house into an interactive playground for kids, using your smart devices. Specifically lights, doors, and objects which children can safely interact with. You can run this in three different modes: on a phone/PC using local speakers; using network-attached audio in Home Assistant (sonos, google home, alexa); using Apple TV. The app creates missions/challenges, tells the kids what to do, and sets a timer and automatically polls Home Assistant to determine when they complete the mission. At the end it provides a "game summary".

What's included:

• Game framework, dockerized
• Dev environment with a pre-configured dev Home Assistant instance for testing / demo for those who (understandably) prefer to not just YOLO it on their Home Assistant.
• Source code for Apple TV app - you can build in Xcode and push to your Apple TV (apple limits it to living for 7 days on your TV each push unless you are a paid developer)

What you need to do:

• Connect to your Home Assistant; I'd suggest making a new user and generating a token for that user.
• The app will scan your Home Assistant devices and allow you to select which speakers (if any) you want to use for challenges
• The app will scan your Home Assistance devices and propose challenges (e.g. turn the kitchen lights on; open the back door; turn the fan and light on in the kids bedroom) which YOU review and approve
• Generate media - the app does this for you, ~~but you need to provide Open Router and ElevenLabs API keys. It will cost somewhere around $3.50 or so to generate all the content. You can re-generate most/all of it if you wish to. Most of the TTS audio text can be modified.~~ Update: just Gemini API keys directly, no more ElevenLabs or Open Router. You'll have better luck being on Tier 2 billing tier in Gemini, but Tier 1 will be ok as well with selective back-offs on rate limiting.

This is just a personal project but I figured it is a fun way to get kids moving and active inside the house, so I put a little extra polish on it and share it because I haven't found many other projects like this.

I of course realize that this is pretty niche and most people won't have a need for this or even want to use it. And that's ok!

Screenshots and more information in the Readme on the GitHub: https://github.com/dcnoren/mission-control

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nyc2pit on 2026-03-21 19:38:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/seriousthrillissues on 2026-03-21 17:53:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/rapax on 2026-03-21 14:19:28+00:00.

We have a nice little pond in our backyard, with newts and toads and all kinds of local wildlife. In summer, it's the jewel of our back yard. Unfortunately, evaporation often leads to low water levels, so we have to occasionally top it up.

I have a nice setup with a zigbee water valve that I can open and close through HA, no problem. What I don't have is a reliable water level sensor. That is obviously something that needs fixing, so I got to thinking about ways of measuring the water level (boundary condition: the sensor must not be visible to comply with WAF criteria).

• Floaters don't work, too many plants and algae etc.
• Ultrasonic needs a minimum distance of 10-20cm and while there is little wooden bridge over the pond, it's only about 10cm from the water, so not enough room to mount a sensor

So I came up with the idea of hiding a little wifi camera under the bridge and mounting a broken piece of a yard stick in front of it. Then use AI vision to read the water level. Worked beautifully at first: a little automation to wake up the camera every three hours, turn on the LED floodlight, snap a picture, pass it to Gemini, get back the water level, turn on the water if it's too low. Beautiful.

That is, until our helpful little spiders decided that what that setup really needed was a bunch of cobwebs right in front of the lens, so that they could reflect the light everywhere and make reading the water level impossible.

Ok, it's their home, I'll find another way.

Let's revisit that idea with the ultrasound sensor. Yes, there's no enough room to mount it vertically under the bridge, but what about horizontally? I added a 45° reflector panel under the middle of the panel, and placed a Shelly BLU distance sensor on a flat rock under the end of the bridge. I intentionally didn't mount the sensor to the bridge, because I wanted to be able to just reach under there and grab it, whenever the battery needs charging. Brilliant. Works perfectly well...for a few days.

It's now early spring, and the frogs are having a party. There's more frogspawn in the pond every morning and at night, they're loudly enjoying themselves. Cool. Suddenly, the vibration sensor of the Shelly triggers, then again, and the distance becomes implausible. Then signal is lost.

Turns out, that the Shelly is IP64 rated, but that doesn't mean it likes being kicked into the pond by horny frogs. So now the sensor is dead. 2:0 for the critters.

I have now ordered one of these zigbee sensors. Apparently they have a shorter minimal distance, and are mains powered, so no battery needed. I wonder what which little beastie will foil my plans this time.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-03-21 10:48:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ScientistEasy1328 on 2026-03-21 08:19:28+00:00.

Running HA on a Raspberry Pi, CasaOS + Docker. Started looking at connecting Claude to the whole thing there’s the official MCP integration (added in 2025.2) and the community ha-mcp project. Haven’t set up either yet.

Question for people who’ve actually done this: does it change how you use HA day-to-day, or is it mostly a demo? And practically official integration or ha-mcp? I’m self-hosted without Nabu Casa, so remote access runs through my own tunnel. Curious if that breaks anything or if

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/trevah1200 on 2026-03-21 01:07:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mattchew0 on 2026-03-21 00:40:40+00:00.

Is there an integration for Home Assistant you wish existed but haven’t been able to find? Maybe it’s a self hosted service or a product you wish had an integration.

Looking for my next project.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/i_bri on 2026-03-20 22:47:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Forward-Arm3051 on 2026-03-20 20:51:01+00:00.

Original Title: Entity Manager update v2.17.0 A powerful, feature-rich Home Assistant integration for managing entities across all your integrations. View, enable, disable, rename, analyze, and bulk-manage entities and firmware updates from a single modern interface.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-03-20 19:54:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/angrycatmeowmeow on 2026-03-20 15:31:04+00:00.

Original Title: If you enable "live notifications for all apps" in android developer settings, you can get HA live notifications as a chip in your status bar and in the Now Bar. It unfortunately doesn't work if you have an image in the notification.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Flameknight on 2026-03-20 15:25:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/missyquarry on 2026-03-19 18:32:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Team-Claratech on 2026-03-19 17:30:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/UmmUhhhShit on 2026-03-19 15:16:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ArnyminerZ on 2026-03-18 09:53:16+00:00.