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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Plane_Positive6608 on 2026-05-24 13:10:44+00:00.

I've been using HA for years and I'm always on the lookout for new goodies I can add to it. Howtogeek.com has been focusing on HA for awhile now and shared a new, well def new to me, github based awesome list of HA interactions --> https://github.com/frenck/awesome-home-assistant#how-to-use

I grabbed a few I've never heard of, my fave being this ai automation suggester, I have a local ollama llm setup on my nuc that works pretty well.

Anyway, hope you find it useful!

Opps on the githib in the title, of course I meant github but my finger decided to take that moment to rebel. Well the one finger, the rest of the crew were not complicit, hence they will not be punished.....

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Gamester17 on 2026-05-24 08:34:50+00:00.

MiciMike drop-in replacement circuit board for the first-generation Google Home Mini crowdfunding campaign has already gotten over 1000% funding with more than 2-weeks left to go

https://www.crowdsupply.com/micimike-rev-devices/micimike-home-mini-drop-in-pcb

The concept is make it simple to partially reuse and convert the shell of a Google Home Mini into a fully open-source and local-only Home Assistant voice smart speaker compatible device. The project is a community highlight mentioned in the latest Open Home Foundation newsletter

https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/research-as-an-antidote-to-software-brain/

It is expensive and very niche but nice solution for those who want to keep the exact same aesthetic, and can do a stealth upgrade of its internals without others in the family seeing a difference on the outside

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Gnaaah on 2026-05-24 07:31:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/thewillmiller on 2026-05-23 22:49:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Bubbaedc on 2026-05-23 22:02:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/redd2100 on 2026-05-23 16:33:40+00:00.

I'm running 2026.5.3 as a VM on Proxmox and all is going well. I upgraded to 2026.5.4 and the system appeared to still be functional, but it was consuming high amounts of CPU. I rebooted the HA VM to see if it just needed a fresh start and it came back with the high CPU usage immediately. So I restored the morning backup to get 2026.5.3 back and everything was working great again.

Anyone else have any similar issues with .4? If there's anything specific that someone can recommend I look for, I would be happy to upgrade again today and gather more details on what might be going on.

UPDATE:

Did the upgrade again and again the CPU usage was high. Brought up the console and noticed it was killing processes due to out of memory error. Went into shell and ran top and saw the following:

using 101% CPU - "python3 -m homeassistant --config /config"

using 36% CPU - "python3 -m wyoming_satellite --name assist microphone --uri tcp://0.0.0.0:10700 --mic-command..."

I have no idea why it appears to be stuck here, but I went into the Settings/Apps and stopped the "Assist Microphone" and "openWakeWord" addons, and set them to not start on boot. About 30 seconds later the CPU was fine. Did a fresh restart of HA to make sure it's all clean, but currently the 2026.5.4 appears to have broken my wyoming integration for the moment.

https://preview.redd.it/zbxcl2pqvz2h1.png?width=1273&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f4b7ae559ff0e4d0aca2c5f634118d3fd894a5b

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Anxious-Inevitable97 on 2026-05-23 13:37:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/f_spez_2023 on 2026-05-23 05:24:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Unlikely-Jeweler2241 on 2026-05-23 15:20:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-05-23 12:00:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Big-Edge2297 on 2026-05-23 05:00:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/elhouso on 2026-05-23 01:49:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/pREDDITcation on 2026-05-22 21:18:30+00:00.

I bought two mmwave sensors from switchbot and one of them was terrible. I left a bad review. I got an email from a third party service that switchbot hires to keep their reviews high. The rep offered to reimburse me (through paypal) if i order another switchbot item if i changed my review to 5 stars on the original product, and leave a good review on the next one.

Some may argue that it’s a company trying to do right by their customers - I see it as buying good reviews for poor quality products.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Ajpaxson on 2026-05-22 17:13:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Johann_VR on 2026-05-22 12:04:41+00:00.

Hey! A while ago I released an Addon for Home Assistant that turns your HA Host into an Airplay 2 receiver. I'm happy to announce that it has now been updated to the latest version of shairport-sync (the underlying Airplay 2 receiver program).

It still has all the same great functionality but in a much smaller footprint, thanks to changing the image base to Alpine.

It also lets you turn on the MQTT integration built-in to shairport-sync to use in automations, like turning on your speaker when you connect to Airplay! Feel free to check out the code and request changes/improvements, and I'll see what I can do 😄

Here's the link to the Repo: Airplay 2 for Home Assistant

*edit*:

If you missed my original post, here is a quick breakdown of how it works:

The Core Concept: This add-on makes the hardware you run Home Assistant on (like a Raspberry Pi) show up on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac as a native AirPlay device.

Audio Only: You can stream any music, podcasts, or audio straight from Apple devices to your HA host (note: video streaming is not supported). 

Hardware Setup: You can route the sound through your host's built-in audio jack, or use any standard USB sound card recognized by Home Assistant.

Just plug your Home Assistant host or USB sound card into a speaker, and you have a brand-new smart AirPlay speaker ready to go!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Dazzling-Stable-3452 on 2026-05-22 01:00:02+00:00.

I am a software engineer and observe supply chain attacks on software (trivy, axios) happening more frequently. With use of AI for development, this may happen in HACS integrations & even HA, for me, I have started to delay the version upgrades for at least a week if my current setup is working fine and even started looking at source code for HACS integration

I am still new to open source software so happy to hear your thoughts on this especially experts in this area. Cheers!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bradcrc on 2026-05-21 23:12:50+00:00.

Been playing around with the voice assistant stuff, and it's so neat that it's possible with HA to have EVERYTHING run locally if you want. Voice recognition, tts, even been playing around with ollama to get local AI, which is wild that it's all running right in the same room and not some mystery cloud somewhere. just neat stuff. Having some weird ESPHome issues with the device, but still a lot of fun to play with.

STL files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7357076

YAML: https://github.com/bradcrc/voice_assistant_circle_led

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mrruss3ll on 2026-05-21 21:37:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Reikan-Ysora on 2026-05-21 20:04:11+00:00.

Hi everyone (again :D),

A quick word of context first: Helios is my Home Assistant card (a Lovelace card for HA) that I released a few days ago. I've had a lot of feedback since then, and I wanted to offer you a solution to a problem quite a few of you ran into.

I hesitated a lot before posting yet another message, because for the past week I've really felt like I've been flooding the subreddit, and that's not like me. But given the announcement I had to make about Helios, I wanted to give it a dedicated post. I get a lot of support messages, and I think I can finally show you a solution that should make everyone happy. So, sorry in advance for cluttering your feed a little more.

About Helios: I've been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm and the feedback on my card, but I also picked up on a lot of frustration on your side. For many of you, you weren't in a LiDAR zone covered by Helios.

Unfortunately, after spending many hours trying to find compatible providers for the majority of you, I hit a serious wall. Between the data formats, the incomplete websites, and the APIs that work whenever they feel like it, I tried to find a way for as many people as possible to get access to this feature. And that's when a certain u/jourdant suggested adding a feature to my card: the ability to import a homemade LiDAR map, along with all the tools to do it.

So I decided to recycle my little OVH VPS to offer you an alternative, and above all community-driven, solution: https://helios-lidar.org/.

It's an automatic conversion pipeline that supports the majority of LiDAR formats available in each country. Anyone can head to the site, convert their map, and receive a ready-to-use LiDAR map along with the YAML configuration that goes with it. I wanted this tool to be simple, free (of course), and practical. The data is only kept for 10 minutes, both to preserve everyone's anonymity and to avoid overloading my server's storage.

If any of you finds a working API for a country, all you have to do is submit a pull request on the site's GitHub repository, in the "LIDAR_SOURCES.md" file, and the whole community can benefit from that link.

It's simple, community-driven, practical, and, for now, maybe a little slow given the computing power I have :X, but I wanted to share it with you. I'm convinced that with LiDAR data, Helios's predictions are much finer and more relevant than with other forecasts.

So I'm going to stop flooding for good and let you breathe a little with this project. I'll do the same myself: I've spent a lot of hours on it recently and I'm going to ease off a bit. I plan to bring you a 1.7.0 with plenty of new features, but it'll come when it comes. I want to take the time to do things right, and above all to do my best to give you a quality card.

Hoping this card brings you as much joy as I had designing it.

Don't hesitate to keep reaching out to me by DM; I'll do my best to help you and reply as quickly as possible. I was very busy wrapping up 1.6.0, which means quite a few of you had to wait a few days before getting an answer. If that's the case, feel free to open a discussion thread on the Helios GitHub: most of the issues you've run into have probably also been hit by other users.

And for the curious, here are all the links. Everything is open source, even the site:

• The site: https://helios-lidar.org/
• The site's repository: https://github.com/ReikanYsora/Helios-Lidar
• The card's repository: https://github.com/ReikanYsora/Helios
• The page to edit to add a LiDAR coverage link: https://github.com/ReikanYsora/Helios-Lidar/blob/main/LIDAR_SOURCES.md

Please don't hesitate to send me your feedback, I strongly encourage it: that's how this tool will keep growing and improving.

And if you feel like it, feel free to drop a little GitHub star on both repos (or buy me a coffee sometime if you can). It's always nice to see that the project sparks some interest :)

Feel free to share the link too: I'm afraid the HACS integration request might take longer than expected (I'm guessing around 1 to 2 months).

And sorry for the length of this message, but the topic is a little complex and deserves, I think, to be explained properly.

Thanks everyone, and see you soon :)

ReikanYsora / Jérôme

Sorry, I deleted the previous post because it sorely lacked clarity.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bsnel76 on 2026-05-21 06:17:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TechTechno57 on 2026-05-21 03:32:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Virtual-Path1704 on 2026-05-21 02:05:22+00:00.

I originally got into smart home stuff for the fun side of it, but some devices genuinely ended up changing my day to day habits more than I expected.

Robot vacuums might be the biggest example for me, because I stopped having to constantly think about the floors being dirty.

Curious what devices ended up becoming background infrastructure in your home instead of just a cool gadget.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Rude-News-8416 on 2026-05-21 15:08:51+00:00.

I will start with two of mine at opposite ends of the spectrum.

The first is extremely simple. When I put my smartwatch on its charger in the evening, the house knows I am winding down. The lighting shifts to evening tones. The shades close. The whole house mode flips to sleep-ready. It is one of my least technically impressive automations and one of my most loved. The trigger is dumb. The effect is everything.

The second is more involved. The shades in my main living space are managed by an automation I call "Do Not Cook the Fish". It has four template sensors and two state triggers. It tracks LUX levels going up and down, the TV being turned on or off, and whether any windows are opened or closed. The west-facing dining room windows take full afternoon sun, which both bakes the room and causes a lot of glare.

The automation closes the shades when LUX crosses a sustained threshold, or faster when the LUX spikes high enough to be painful (cloud-and-sun afternoons in Loja are dramatic). It does not fully close the shades when a window is open, so if someone closes the window it re-evaluates and adjusts. Same for the TV. Turning it on triggers a lower LUX threshold because glare on a screen is more annoying than direct sun on a face. And the shades open all the way at the start of sunset, because the sunset over the Andes is the actual reason we live in this house and no automation gets to hide it.

The bedtime one is extremely simple but satisfying. The shades automation is more complex and impressive. Both earn their place because they make the house feel like it is paying attention.

What is yours?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nutstobutts on 2026-05-21 13:54:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/sydpermres on 2026-05-21 04:45:17+00:00.

I've been thinking of scenarios where HA might be used for my Roborock, but I'm not able to find out what HA can do better/automate which I can currently do in its own app. I understand the need of centralising usage, but this is something which I'm not able to fully creative.