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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/claesson3835 on 2026-03-09 13:45:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TheProffalken on 2026-03-09 08:13:33+00:00.

I have AuDHD which means I get deeply fascinated by the wrong things for long periods of time.

I've tried three times to make sourdough from scratch, but I always forget to feed it and it either dies or goes mouldy as a result.

I decided that this one was going to work, so I thought I'd put reminders into my calendar, then I thought "hang on, why don't I completely over-engineer this and build a home assistant integration?!"

https://github.com/Matts-Baps/ha-sourdough is the result:

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There's a full readme in the git repo and you can install it via HACS. The recipe is based on one I found on Instagram that seems to be working well so far!

If you do decide to use it and have any issues, please raise a bug on the Github Repo and I'll do my best to respond to it as soon as I can!

A note about AI:

I've unashamedly used Claude Code to develop this. I've got 25 years experience of software development, agile coaching, and linux systems administration and I've leant heavily on that experience to guide the AI on this project including guardrails such as pull requests on github and manual review of the code before it is merged.

Claude has helped me develop in hours something that would have taken me months otherwise.

If you don't like AI, great! Good for You! Feel free to not install this into your home assistant installation, but this code has been created by bots and reviewed by humans, and I'm rather pleased with the results!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Josh31782 on 2026-03-09 05:43:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Romanmir on 2026-03-09 00:34:02+00:00.

I’m thinking of starting to add some stores as zones, but I feel like once I start doing that I won’t be able to stop.

The use case is to have a shopping lists pop up when I arrive at a store.

Am I insane to start down this road, or is this the most normal thing that people are doing for this problem?

And if it is that I’m insane for doing this, how are others doing this?

Edit: ok, so it turns out I’m not insane. Thank you, everyone for your responses. Some of them have inspired other things to do with zones.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jbmc00 on 2026-03-08 22:13:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/borkempire on 2026-03-08 22:06:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DistrictWinter on 2026-03-08 19:59:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Englishmuffin1 on 2026-03-08 18:49:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/farfalux on 2026-03-08 17:13:22+00:00.

I’ve been creating a small series about Helpers in Home Assistant, showing practical ways I actually use them in my dashboards and automations.

Instead of focusing on theory, I try to show real examples that make Home Assistant easier to manage without editing YAML.

So far I’ve covered helpers like:

• Input Number – useful for adjustable values in automations

• Input Datetime – scheduling things directly from the UI

• Input Boolean – creating toggle switches for automations

• Input Text – dynamic messages for dashboards and notifications

• Input Select – choosing modes or states from a dropdown

• Template Helpers – building useful sensors like day/night status, battery warnings, or countdowns

Most of these can be created directly from the Home Assistant UI, so it’s beginner-friendly and doesn’t require editing configuration.yaml.

If you’re trying to make your automations more flexible or your dashboards more dynamic, helpers are incredibly useful.

I put together a playlist explaining each one with examples from my own setup.

🔗Videos: How I Use Helpers in Home Assistant to Simplify Automations

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/borgqueenx on 2026-03-08 12:50:27+00:00.

if we remove a device, we can add it back but it loses the unique device number, causing automations to break. I found this out not too long ago, and in my like 200 automations i probably have around 800 device ID's.

I now have to manually open all automations to delete the device and add entities instead. This will probably take me many, many hours. while currently home assistant knows what entity it has to react with. or you could ask the user for confirmation....but no..there's no way to convert this all.

It makes me feel device ID is something broken, and could have been fixed. If entity matches, take on the last device ID, for example. or ask if thats ok. Or simply delete devices...

Oh well, its a sunny sunday afternoon so lets pour some time into this....

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/H_i_TMAN on 2026-03-08 12:17:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Trooped on 2026-03-08 08:29:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Dreadpirate3 on 2026-03-08 01:18:52+00:00.

I live close to a relatively busy port, and was curious if there was any way to track nearby ships in the same way that FlightRader24 tracks planes. Would love to know when cruise ships are in port, or when someone swings by with a fancy yacht. My Google-fu has failed me, as searches return either package tracking or ways to use HA on your boat. Any suggestions are appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Successful-Peak-6524 on 2026-03-07 12:13:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MangoScango on 2026-03-06 22:07:22+00:00.

I recently discovered Actual Budget, a self-hosted budgeting tool that supports automatic bank sync, and have fallen in love. Naturally the next step was to integrate it into homeassistant so that I could easily keep tabs on my budget and automate some routine tasks.

While there is a custom integration for Actual, I found it to be kind of lacking and development has stalled. I considered briefly picking up the mantle, but found that everything that I wanted to do could be done without the burden of maintaining a custom integration, using the built in rest_command integration and template sensors.

If you use Actual, check it out. I have examples for setting up basic cards to display your budget and recent transactions. There are also a few automatons to automatically trigger bank syncs, send common notifications, and import transactions automatically from an email inbox. That last one is my personal favorite, because it allows your budget to update in realtime automatically, so you immediately see the impact of that Taco Bell order.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/No_Hornet5229 on 2026-03-07 17:12:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RedikhetDev on 2026-03-07 15:25:54+00:00.

I suppose iam not the only person who has automated a lot of things at home and the housemate/partner is absolutely a nitwit regarding IT stuff. Now when i am getting a bit older i keep thinking what would happen if I am sudenly not there anymore. My partner has no clue and thing will fail at a certain point in time. Essential things like switching on a light might be a problem for example. Do you have a contingency plan and are do you prepared for this? Or is this just a futile problem?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/HBX-100 on 2026-03-07 12:10:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-03-07 11:02:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/biggerthanjohncarew on 2026-03-07 10:30:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/greasedupbeefcake on 2026-03-07 02:49:20+00:00.

My partner just requested her first HA automation, finally. Liberation after a long struggle of her hating our Home Assistant setup for not being perfect (it's one long beta experiment right?).

Anyway the job was to stop her from having to get up in the middle of the night to turn off the ceiling fan above our bed (hot at night but cold in morning).

Shelly 1PMGEN4 installed in-line with the ceiling fan control switch.

Now the fan turns off automatically in the morning (checks bedroom temp sensor every 15 mins between 3am and 8am) and we also have a Sonoff smart button on the bedhead for manual control.

We made it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/baconwrappedbitcoin on 2026-03-06 20:17:43+00:00.

I wanted a way to track what's in my wine racks without a spreadsheet, so I built a custom HA integration for it. Figured I'd share since there wasn't really anything out there like this.

You get a visual grid of your wine racks with color-coded bottles, label thumbnails, and Drink/Hold/Past Peak badges. Stats bar at the top shows bottle count, capacity, and total value.

The part I'm most happy with is the label scanning. You take a photo of a wine label and Google Gemini identifies the wine, gives you a full sommelier-style breakdown (vintage, region, grape, drink window, estimated price, critic rating estimates), and then auto-pulls ratings and market pricing from Vivino in the background. One scan does everything.

There's also batch buttons to run AI analysis or Vivino refresh across your whole cellar at once, which is handy when you first add a bunch of bottles.

Other stuff:

Drag and drop to rearrange bottles on desktop, long-press to move on mobile Half-star rating widget and tasting notes Barcode scanning via camera Search and filter by type, name, winery, region Configurable rack layouts with named storage zones HA sensors for automations (bottle count, capacity, etc.) It's a HACS custom repo, free Gemini API key for the AI features, everything runs locally except the Gemini and Vivino calls.

GitHub: https://github.com/BaconWappedBitcoin/ha-wine-cellar

Open to feedback or feature ideas.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/No_Teaching_4383 on 2026-03-06 19:10:07+00:00.

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, my Home Assistant instance has accumulated a lot of "cruft" over the years. Old Zigbee bulbs I replaced, ESPHome nodes I renamed, or battery devices that died months ago.

They leave behind those annoying unavailable or unknown entities that clutter up the registry. Finding them is annoying, but deleting them from the Entity Registry one by one is a nightmare.

So, I built Unavailable Devices Report.

It does two things:

1. The Report: It creates a sensor that generates a clean Markdown report (grouped by Device) of everything that is currently offline or broken. You can put this directly on your "Maintenance" dashboard.
2. The Purge (The Killer Feature): It includes a service (unavailable_devices_report.remove_items) that can take that list and permanently delete those ghost entities from the registry in bulk.

Features:

• Device-Centric: It doesn't just list entities; it groups them by the physical device so you know exactly which piece of hardware is acting up.
• Custom Exclusions: You can ignore specific entities (like that one printer that is always offline) via the UI options.
• Safety First: The purge service is manual-only. It won't delete anything unless you tell it to (and I included an example automation in the docs to ask for confirmation first).

https://preview.redd.it/gchbs2nd4hng1.png?width=730&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c516c3b894394a8810dc69d30dd3330d35343ca

Links:

• GitHub:https://github.com/VilniusTechnology/ha-unavailable-devices-report
• HACS: Search for "Unavailable Devices Report" (Custom Repository required until default merge).

I’d love to hear what you think or if there are other "maintenance" chores you hate that could be automated!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Chanw11 on 2026-03-06 23:19:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zolti24 on 2026-03-06 21:22:59+00:00.