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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/c0delama on 2025-05-13 13:51:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nutteloost on 2025-05-13 18:41:23+00:00.

Hi everyone ✌️

I’m excited to share Simple Swipe Card, a new custom card I developed. This card lets you add multiple cards in a container and swipe between them - perfect for saving dashboard space!

Why I Made This Card 🧐

I previously used swipe card, but kept running into the infamous “t.setconfig is not a function” error. It was frustrating enough that I decided to build my own swipe card from scratch.

My version doesn’t use the Swiper library and has fewer bells and whistles, but it’s reliable and does exactly what I need it to.

Features ⭐️

• Swipe between multiple cards
• Pagination dots for visual reference
• Configurable card spacing
• Full visual editor support
• Mobile-friendly touch and mouse navigation

Example

Configuration Example 🗒️

You can configure the card using the visual editor or with YAML:

type: custom:simple-swipe-card
cards:
  - type: weather-forecast
    entity: weather.home
  - type: entities
    entities:
      - sensor.temperature
      - sensor.humidity
show_pagination: true
card_spacing: 15

Visual Editor 🛠️

The card also includes a visual editor with a card picker for easy configuration from the dashboard without the need to edit any yaml

https://preview.redd.it/0n6wbzpjfl0f1.png?width=2008&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad95ef04e085fbe5487ebb0809abaeadc6ec9347

Installation & More Information ℹ️

All installation instructions, configuration details, and customization options are in the GitHub repository:

GitHub - nutteloost/simple-swipe-card: A swipeable container for multiple cards with touch and mouse gesture support 👈

Looking forward to seeing how you use this card in your dashboards! If you have any feedback or run into issues, please let me know.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/slboat on 2025-05-13 12:47:33+00:00.

With the new tariff status, we are able to restore a reasonable price level and continue to share those of our DIY sensors including Millimeter Wave Sensors 2A, F2, 1U, 1MS, L13, TOF Ranging Sensor DS1, Temperature & Humidity Sensor THS-1, Carbon Dioxide Sensor SCO2-2, Non-Contact Multi-Point Water Level Sensor WS2, Bluetooth Gateway BP1.

We enjoyed making them, welcome to keep trying our DIY sensors.

We especially recommend the recent L13 millimeter wave sensors, they have good static performance and large range.

https://www.ebay.com/str/screekworkshop

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dudzio1222 on 2025-05-13 08:19:35+00:00.

Hello,

I'm looking for an alarm keypad with fingerprint sensor. Optionally, it could be rfid reader, but is it possible to use phone's NFC to grant access?

I'm testing alarmo and I would like to have a physcial panel just behind front door to disarm alarmo.

Ideally I want it to be zigbee device, but anything (except 433mhz) would work actually.

I'm also considering Ring Alarm Keypad, which is z-wave and that's my alternative if I won't find anything good with fingerprint reader.

Thanks :)

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TruthOf42 on 2025-05-13 01:30:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/macbag on 2025-05-13 10:01:39+00:00.

Just got the Bosch outdoor siren delivered and it paired smoothly via Z2M. But now I checked the manual and it says to place it on the sunny/south-facing side… Problem is, I need it above the entrance - that’s northeast + under soffits. It should get a few hours of morning sun, but definitely not full exposure.

Anyone else using this setup? Do you think it’ll get enough charge? It does have a battery, and I assume the siren won’t go off every day, so maybe the drain is minimal… or am I missing something?

Would love to hear from others who have it installed in less-than-ideal spots.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/justhueyy on 2025-05-13 05:22:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MyButtholeIsTight on 2025-05-12 21:00:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ruuutherford on 2025-05-13 06:35:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/chimph on 2025-05-13 03:38:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DisasterousLamps on 2025-05-12 23:20:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/skotman01 on 2025-05-12 17:38:51+00:00.

So my mom, who lives alone and is afraid of her own shadow is worried she’s gonna kick the bucket and no one will find her for days. We talked through a few options but settled on one where we put the companion app on her phone, and I write automation that looks for last updated as a sensor.

It’s on my HA server about 100 miles away, but this allows me to alert people (myself included) if my server hasn’t seen her phone move in say 12 hours. It also lets me add in some automations when she’s at my house and I’m not.

This sure beats the “hey I’m still alive” texts I kept getting, creating alert fatigue.

Anyway, maybe this idea will help someone else.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/IntenseLamb on 2025-05-12 14:52:21+00:00.

Mostly sharing this to vent to a community that will laugh with me. Making fun of me is fully on the table here.

I am a complete beginner to Home Assistant. Like, ALL of this is new to me. I understood what an ethernet cable and power cord are but otherwise? Raspberry Pi? Downloading… repos? From GitHub? GPIO pinouts? What?

So I turned to ChatGPT to walk me through everything. I wanted a single device powered with Home Assistant OS that could function exactly like my current Alexa set up, but entirely localized (like the aurora borealis, entirely in my kitchen).

ChatGPT says great! You’ll want a computer, microphone, speaker, and screen display to show the time. Let’s get a Raspberry Pi 4b, a ReSpeaker 2-mic hat, and an e-ink display. Here are exact product links that will work for you!

I start looking into these things and discover I’ll probably need a fan too, right? Oh yeah, it says, right. Let’s get a fan hat. And make sure you get a hat for e-ink display. SO now we’re talking GPIO pinouts and jumper wires?

I ordered everything and started trying to design my e-ink clock display. First problem: ChatGPT says oh wait, you want it to display the time… every minute? Nah, it can show you a picture of a clockface but it shouldn’t be refreshed every minute. Just program it to LOOK like a clock!

Next problem: I say, okay, that’s uh a pretty important distinction but whatever, I’ll find a new screen. Let’s configure the local LLM so I can ask it for more complex stuff like Alexa, like the weather and news and my schedule and such. Cause you said I’d need that.

What? Oh no you definitely can’t do that on a Raspberry Pi 4b you already bought, you’ll need an x86 computer at least.

NEXT problem: OKAY CHATGPT. Let’s at least try to figure out this respeaker for now.

What? That respeaker you bought? At the link I suggested? Oh yeah nah that only works on Raspberry Pi OS. You can’t use it on the SAME Raspberry Pi as Home Assistant. You’ll want another one for that.

So… every single thing I bought is almost what I need and will not work for the project.

Watch YouTube videos. Google. Read wikis. Don’t fucking trust ChatGPT.

Anyway. Bout to go drop another couple hundred into this. Any tips or disagreements with my ole pal ChatGPT are very welcome.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jaksterfransiscus on 2025-05-12 20:01:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/kevdash on 2025-05-12 18:54:52+00:00.

Seems air quality sensors require a significant investment in time and money. What sensors do you have and what did you learn, and what did you do improve air quality?

I have a lot of temperature sensors but for CO2 sensors this coverage would cost over $1000

My main hypothesis is we aren't sleeping well if the air is bad, so the bedroom is an obvious starting place.

Keen to hear your success stories to gauge how much I invest and if I really need C02

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Vearts on 2025-05-12 07:54:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/deverox on 2025-05-12 07:45:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/thelordfolken81 on 2025-05-12 07:15:42+00:00.

Just thought I’d ask if anybody else has put together a process or automation that has been a disaster.

In my case I’ve upgraded every power point and light to be smart. Which I then added into home assistant. I exposed all my smart devices to HomeKit bridge so I could use Siri to do voice control. Works amazingly well! Except adding in all my devices was my mistake. On this particular day, my kids were being naughty and wouldn’t turn off the tv when asked. My wife blew her stack and yelled at sirri, ‘hey Sirri, turn it all off’. Thus Sirri turned off every single switch and light in our house. Including but not limited to the Shelly 1PM on the broadband router power point, the fridge, the freezer, all the lights, servers, wifi … everything. The entire house went silent and dark with my wife looking at me confused. Absolute pain to have to manually restart everything…

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ayw93 on 2025-05-12 02:59:09+00:00.

Wanted to share a failure that I had. I was the one that failed, not Home Assistant.

I've been using HA for about 7 years now, and moved from an apartment to a home last June. My apartment setup was really solid and somewhat advanced, but as I moved everything over to the house I'd been slowly migrating. I've been doing lots of other DIY stuff and been putting most non-critical automations and other enhancements lower on my list.

Anyway, since I moved in, I've had two somewhat minor water incidents in my basement but was lucky to be able to catch both within a couple of minutes to avoid anything major. In one incident, the sewer backed up; in the other, the laundry drain came loose.

Well, two days ago, I was doing one of my DIY projects and went down to my basement to grab a saw when I noticed water standing in multiple areas of the basement as much as about an inch deep in some spots! I immediately shut off my water (much to the dismay of my toddler's hour long bath upstairs - my wife was with him don't worry) as I didn't know what going on. I quickly realized that my sewer was backed up again and this time it was coming out from the laundry drain as well. It went into the hallway, through the wall and was flooding the other side of my basement and the kids toys. I wasn't as lucky this this time.

Within minutes I had my shop vac vacuuming the water and I was able to get most water away and then towel dried and have been running the dehumidifier, so hopefully nothing major.

So what's the failure? I had a water sensor by the laundry because of the first laundry incident. But I never set up any automations. I figured, "what are the chances something happens a third time so soon. I'll get to it eventually!!!

The logs showed water detected about 13 minutes before I went down. I could have caught it in seconds. But I was too lazy. I failed.

If you have automations you need to create then do it. Don't be lazy. We all use HA for "creating the solution for problems that don't exist", but it's also something that brings great value to our lives. Don't be an idiot like me and be sure to setup what is truly important.

And no... I haven't setup the automation yet. What are the chances it happens a fourth time?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/sccrwoohoo on 2025-05-11 23:32:47+00:00.

Over the years, my wife and I have shut the blinds and curtains on the east side of the house to control the heat in the summer months, and then later in the day, we shut down the blinds and curtains on the west side of the house. I keep telling my wife I could automate the blinds and curtains, and my wife keeps telling me, "No."

So today, she asked me if a notification could be set to do the same thing. I again offered to automate the blinds and curtains. She again said no, so I'm willing to compromise and play the long game until she tells me to actually automate them.

For now, she wants me to create a notification based on the following conditions:

• Outside current temperature.
• Forecasted current temperature.
• Position of the sun.

I know how to get the temperature, but I'm a bit stuck on the position of the sun and if there is anything else I should monitor, that would then send the Phone notification.

Help??

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BryanHChi on 2025-05-11 21:54:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/unigr33n on 2025-05-11 15:40:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dathardstyleboi on 2025-05-11 13:36:18+00:00.

Hello everyone, "new" Home Assistant user here (about 1-2 months in) and I am absolutely loving it. Yesterday I sat down and tried creating a plant tracker because this app I was using stopped working. Although simple, I am proud of this handy addition to my smart home and I wanted to share it with you!

Amount of weeks/days when last watered with a progress bar for next watering moment.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hmzak on 2025-05-11 19:19:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CHRISTIVVN on 2025-05-11 18:31:27+00:00.

I’m pretty new to HA and just finished moving everything over from HomeKit. Still have some things there but it just works better within that environment.

I was just wondering what kind of blueprints you guys were using that you absolutely love and make you life easier. The ones I’m using right now are;

• Hue Dimmer Remote
• Low battery level Detection

And I’m playing around with the sensor light one.

Curious to see what you guys use!