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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElevationMediaLLC on 2025-07-31 04:02:12+00:00.

Hi r/HomeAssistant !

This video is something that I've been working on for over 12 months, shortly after my elderly mother who lives alone lost her balance for a moment one day last summer and took a fall in her home. She wasn't injured, there was no need to get her to a hospital - but it really got me thinking. I had just returned from an international business trip mere hours before, and so she was able to get a hold of us - but part of me worried about what if I'd been in the air when it happened, or still on my business trip which was +12 time zones ahead? So I started planning what I would do with Home Assistant to help "keep an eye on her" 24x7 as best I could, but without being intrusive about it.

Note -- we did also get her a proper "Life Alert" kind of system and she has a pendant ... but that's not guaranteed to catch every scenario one can think of. And yes, we have had the talk about assisted living, but ... she doesn't want to go, and I get it. So I want to empower her to be as safe as possible. And I've documented what I've done for her in this video (because now I am having to build a second system for my elderly father who lives in a different state, and also is fiercely independent and proud and doesn't want help).

I'm not a rockstar YouTuber (yet?) so go easy on the production quality :) but if this is helpful for anyone you know I hope you'll share it. In a nutshell, for HA gurus - I have simple sensors that are basically invisible to Mom's day-to-day living, and activation of each one kicks off countdown timer(s) with the intention that the timers should never run down to zero. If they run down to zero, I get a critical alert on my phone which will bust through sleep mode, vibrate only, etc.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/macbag on 2025-07-31 08:56:30+00:00.

This might be an obvious question, but I’ve lived all my life without AC and just installed one. Now I’m trying to automate it with HA and realizing it's not so simple. Now when I am at home I make a lot of manual (HA or remote control) clicks turning it on and off and I'd like to automate the process, to turn off it when needed and off when not.

At first, I thought I’d just go by inside temperature. But turns out how I feel depends a lot on humidity too, and sometimes even at 24°C I feel hot, other times not.

It’s not really about the outside temperature either even when it drops to +15°C in the evening, it can still feel hot and stuffy inside.

I'm in Northern Europe if that matters. Split ac, one on each floor (i have like open plan house). Grid

So… how do you decide when to turn the AC on or off? What logic do you use? I feel like I’m missing a good “feels too warm now” rule.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/AdSoft2266 on 2025-07-31 08:24:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Junior-Ad-4909 on 2025-07-31 05:17:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/max-mendes on 2025-07-31 00:10:34+00:00.

Had a random thought during lunch: what if I could press a key and instantly open my security cameras in fullscreen? 🤔

So I built a simple Electron app in JavaScript. It opens any URL in a fullscreen window and toggles it on/off when I press the "Home" key.

I’m using it to open a Home Assistant dashboard in kiosk mode — just one card showing all my live security cams.

The app runs in the background, starts silently with Windows, and stays in the system tray.

Vibe-coded the whole thing in less than half an hour.

Thinking of putting the code on GitHub — anyone interested?

Edit: I’ve just uploaded the full code to my GitHub repository. It’s a vibe-coded project so there might be some rough edges or bugs. Feel free to open issues or suggest improvements if you have ideas!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/teetow on 2025-07-30 19:02:40+00:00.

(Darren and I have since fixed it)

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/droans on 2025-07-30 16:11:05+00:00.

Hi!

I would like to share with you a little card I've been slowly working on over the past couple months - the Music Assistant Queue Card

https://preview.redd.it/m2ezzq7zb1gf1.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e4033db7dd100583e35db38afcec1124d8ba681

IMPORTANT:

This card relies upon another custom integration I created: droans/mass_queue as the Music Assistant integration is currently limited on what you can do and doesn't support altering the player queues. This custom integration is NOT included in HACS by default but can be added.

Features:

• Select any song in queue
• Move songs up, down, or next
• Remove items from queue
• Automatically hides when queue has no items or is otherwise inactive
• Header title can be set by the user
• Card can be set to be expanded or collapsed by default

Installation and configuration instructions are in the Readme file. I'll be happy to answer any other questions that you have.

I am rather new at JS coding. I am more than happy to accept contributions I've tried to optimize this to the best of my abilities but I'm sure there are still improvements to be made

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/angrycatmeowmeow on 2025-07-30 15:40:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Weary-Fan946 on 2025-07-30 10:17:37+00:00.

I have put together a blog on my current weather station set up. https://www.thesmarthome.blog/ecowitt-wittboy-weather-station-review/ and how it integrates with Home Assistant

I also have an Eve Weather https://www.thesmarthome.blog/category/smart-garden/ but most of my HA data comes from the Ecowitt. Attached is my current weather dashboard.

I have the irrigation system but that doesn't play with Home Assistant (yet) the Ecowitt smart controls are reasonable for automated watering but HA would allow a but more functionality.

https://preview.redd.it/rqab95iqlzff1.png?width=1239&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c173505554995b80395dd59f9019f0d3543ee73

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/IamMountainDewd on 2025-07-30 18:23:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zy0n on 2025-07-30 15:03:15+00:00.

First of all, I hope this does not come across as spam, and if the mods have any issue's with this post I will happily take it down :bow:

Hey Folks!

My name is Cian (pronounced like Keen*), I've just started a Youtube channel I think some folks here might be interested in. I've been using homeassistant for a few years myself, but only now as I own my home and have some time to tinker, I've started building some little ESP32/Pico powered devices for a number of things around the house.

First up in the series (linked) is building a smart IR controller from scratch. This is my also my first time doing any video editing or any sort, so I hope you like it! There's plenty more ideas I have in the pipeline :)

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/f_spez_2023 on 2025-07-30 04:50:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iametron on 2025-07-29 20:28:07+00:00.

One of the main features my wife and I missed when we ditched our Google hubs was being able to ask Google to show us the front door or the driveway, etc. Been thinking about a way to do this with Home Assistant (voice assistant) and realized it’s not hard.

I have it up and running and it works great.

Here is how I did it in case anyone would like to do this as well.

1. Add a camera card to your dash near the top of one of your columns. Camera View setting (drop down) should be live.
2. Create a Boolean helper and call it whatever you want (ex: Front Door Camera - Dashboard Toggle)
3. Go back to the card you created on your dash for the camera and edit the visibility. Entity state -> select the Boolean toggle you created -> state is equal to on. Save.

At this point, your toggle will display and hide the camera based on whether it’s on or off.

1. Create an automation using device and select sentence as the trigger. Add the phrases you want to use to show the camera.

Ex: Hey Jarvis, front door camera (this is what I use and it works 100%… don’t put the hey Jarvis in the sentence field)

A few times Jarvis has come back with an error when I try to use a longer phrase. Works 100% if I just say hey Jarvis, front door camera or backyard camera.

For the action, choose turn on Boolean and select your front door dash toggle as the entity. Save.

This is all you have to do to get it to work like Google hubs. However, how do you exit the cameras? This is the next step.

1. Create another automation. Select device. Choose sentence again. I added the word exit and under action turn off Boolean and choose the dashboard toggle.
2. Optional… create a button on your dashboard underneath the camera that turns off the dashboard toggle manually. Set the visibility for the button so it only appears when the toggle is active. (Entity state again)

At first, I set this up with a delay for two minutes, so the camera would disappear automatically, but when you do this as a voice automation, it actually sets a timer and when the camera toggle is turned off, VA announces “done.” Didn’t like that.

Something I realized after I did this was that I can call up multiple cameras as long as I’ve created the cards and toggles properly. I can view my front door camera and my driveway camera at the same time and exit by either pushing the button or saying exit.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jamesponddotco on 2025-07-29 21:09:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CptSugarFree on 2025-07-29 20:21:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/repka3 on 2025-07-29 17:58:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/rubernck21 on 2025-07-29 16:38:31+00:00.

Shelly has officially joined the "Works with Home Assistant" program

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Cnirithian on 2025-07-29 15:25:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-07-29 14:49:52+00:00.

What I updated in the blog post:

• Added a clear update note at the top explaining the breaking changes in v1.5.0
• Rewrote the setup steps to reflect the new configuration flows
• Updated YAML automation examples and removed references to the deprecated Timeline provider
• Kept the same post URL for anyone who bookmarked or linked to it

Home Assistant + AI - Smarter Camera Alerts | ChrisHansen Tech

Let me know if you hit any snags updating, especially if your automations broke silently after the update. I missed the change for a few weeks because I had notifications off while my wife was working near the front of the house and triggering the camera all day 😅

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DIY-Craic on 2025-07-28 23:51:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ChrisDeVis1 on 2025-07-29 10:40:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FazeJ99 on 2025-07-28 22:15:57+00:00.

I'm still pretty new to the whole Mini PC thing, but I'm really looking for something low-power and more sustainable. I’d love to have a mini PC as my home assistant. I honestly can't stand how everything in my house is crammed into this old, clunky desktop. Everyone I’ve asked has been throwing all kinds of mini PC suggestions at me. A few folks even said the most sustainable thing would be to just keep using my current beat-up machine. For context, it’s a 2012 Mac. I’ve also got a bunch of high-capacity cold storage drives (mostly for photo backups and media stuff). If possible, I’d like to be able to do some light gaming on it too. But here’s my concern: does running a mini PC 24/7 generate enough heat to mess with the longevity of HDDs or SSDs? Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I’m trying to find something compact that can kinda do it all and save space at the same time. I came across the Acemagic K1 Mini PC with the Ryzen 7 7730U, it looks solid for the price, seems pretty popular, and it's currently under $400. Would love to hear your thoughts or any advice.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Marathon2021 on 2025-07-28 17:54:04+00:00.

I have a more serious use case for this, but for now I've just been testing it with a stock Amazon Blink camera, pointed at a bedside clock radio (with a box over the top of both to keep light out). And I'm able to "read" the time of day through both the seven segment analysis (the open source SSOCR library) and a little bit of template sensor work.

https://imgur.com/a/pb2M36C

I'm not going to go into all the iterations here, suffice it to say it probably took at least 50+ tweaks to config.yaml to get it just right. But I found ChatGPT to be helpful along the way and probably made more progress than without it. But, it would also "hallucinate" some things that absolutely were not real - and I'd have to go double-check it - like imagining that the "-C" operator would remove both decimal points and colons (wrong, it only does the former).

If you have a readout you want to capture data from -- for example, I'm probably going to set this up on our chest freezer -- it's interesting to look at. But it absolutely does take a lot of futzing with it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RoyalCities on 2025-07-28 22:02:26+00:00.

Original Title: I put together a full video on fully local AI voice capabilities / Home Assistant and I've ALSO open-sourced all my code relating to building short/long term memory modules + voice activated daisy chaining! :)

Hope this helps anyone who is looking at going fully local voice AI with HA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE2kRmXMF0I

My short / long term memory designs, vocal daisy chaining and also my docker compose stack can be found here! https://github.com/RoyalCities/RC-Home-Assistant-Low-VRAM

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/slboat on 2025-07-28 01:08:26+00:00.

After manufacturing more than 600 units, I think this can be called DIY. We print the casing as needed, then merge the circuit boards together. Now we are upgrading the firmware to a new version, and they have become a bunch of attributes.

Regardless, it's still exciting to keep making them, and the extra profit allows us to explore new things, such as the formaldehyde sensor, dust particle sensor, and a USB Bluetooth gateway that plugs into an outlet that we've just manufactured.

We will continue to manufacture them in our spare time, DIYing them in this fun way.

https://preview.redd.it/ei7f1bifkiff1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56b415ed6deaf2208d048bf540b33e29b575980e

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For those interested, you can buy them from our independent store: https://store.screek.io/products/1ms

We have experience shipping worldwide (we seem to be turning into a sensor merchant :)) and have experience diy over 7,000 DIY sensors. We DIY them in our spare time and will likely continue to do so, creating new things.