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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-04-05 01:37:30+00:00.

Just published a quick blog post showing how I integrated the self hosted SpeedTest Tracker with Home Assistant to display download/upload speeds and ping on my dashboard—without relying on the the SpeedTest-net integration that can slow things down or cause memory issues.

I use a Raspberry Pi touchscreen at my desk to monitor homelab metrics. Now, when someone in the house yells "Is the internet down?!" I can glance over and instantly know if it's an ISP issue or something local.

Here’s what the post walks through:

• Why I moved away from the Speedtest-net integration
• Creating RESTful sensors in Home Assistant to pull results from Speed Test Tracker Docker container
• Displaying everything with Mini Graph Cards (via HACS)

It’s been super helpful in spotting overnight ISP slowdowns.

Read the full write-up here: Speed Test Tracker in Home Assistant

Let me know if you have any questions or improvements—I’m always tweaking the setup!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DongleJungle on 2025-04-05 00:17:11+00:00.

I'm creating a series of beginner-friendly guides for new Home Assistant users. When I first started, there wasn’t much content available for first-time and first-year tinkerers. Today, while there are plenty of guides, many assume you’re comfortable with "advanced" skills like networking, linux administration, and soldering.

In my latest post, I break down the bare essentials for getting started with Home Assistant—without overspending or delving deeply into complex topics. I'm specifically aiming to avoid strongly opinionated fields like ZHA vs Z2M and making things easy.

Do you think this approach is helpful? Is there anything missing that you'd think would be useful? I appreciate any feedback!

Read the post about What's Needed to Start with Home Assistant.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dror88 on 2025-04-04 22:58:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CheeseDick5000 on 2025-04-04 20:04:03+00:00.

I created the this custom laundry card for myself and wanted to share it. I hope everyone enjoys my ridiculous custom card.

Here's my Github link so you can recreate it for yourselves.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Due_Carpenter5909 on 2025-04-04 15:37:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/fennecxx on 2025-04-04 15:36:37+00:00.

Hi, I’ve got a Shelly 3EM set up in Home Assistant. I created a Total Energy template sensor combining all three phases, and I'm using utility meter helpers for daily and monthly tracking.

Sometimes (like once a week, at night), HA record a huge spike (like 40-60 kWh/hour when my normal consumption is 10/day), even though:

• The Shelly app and my energy provider app show normal usage, no spikes.

• The Total Energy and Total Power sensors were totally normal in HA

• The spike only appeared in the utility meter

I have no solar pannels, I only get electricity from the grid.

Seems like it miscalculated the delta during a restart or sensor glitch.

Any ideas what causes this issue and how to fix it to have accurate data from the utility meter sensors?

Thank you in advance. Let me know if I missed providing any important details.

UPD: I found that the issue occurs when, for some reason, the Total Energy value briefly drops to 0 (see example below). The Utility Meter helper then adds the last known value to the total. I hope I explained it clearly and that it makes sense.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/aDomesticHoneyBadger on 2025-04-04 17:12:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ExtensionPatient7681 on 2025-04-04 05:25:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Pianist_Dense on 2025-04-04 11:30:10+00:00.

So, I was at work when I got a notification from my outdoor sensor saying it had detected movement. This was unusual because the sensor is mainly there to measure temperature (it’s a multi-sensor) and is stationed on the roof of our shed. I checked HomeKit, but it just said the sensor was “not reachable.” I figured the battery had died, and the motion detection was its last goodbye.

Then I noticed that HomeKit showed 11 switches as turned on in the top bar. Since my wife and I weren’t home, I thought, “Why not turn them off while I’m here?” (I still don’t know why I imported all the switches into HomeKit.) Big mistake. Suddenly, all devices were shown as “not reachable.”

I tried opening Home Assistant and resetting the bridge, which obviously didn’t work. I was confused for a while. Then it hit me: My router is on the same energy-monitoring smart plug as my TV and media station (don’t judge me for that).

Moral of the story: Don’t put your router on a smart plug. Or better yet: Don’t aimlessly turn off ALL switches at home just for fun!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2025-04-04 10:26:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TrickSix6 on 2025-04-04 07:21:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bigdog_00 on 2025-04-03 23:13:36+00:00.

As the title says, I'm curious to get some opinions on AliExpress sensors, buttons, or other gadgets that would be good to stock up on before De Minimus is ended in the US. Personally, I use Zigbee and have stocked up on some buttons and temperature sensors. However, this could be a good place for people using different protocols as well. Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/therealswil on 2025-04-03 23:59:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/WatchNovis on 2025-04-03 21:04:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/obsessivethinker on 2025-04-03 20:54:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/belovedRedditor on 2025-04-03 19:34:42+00:00.

I would like to know how everyone uses LLM in their Home Assistant setup. Share any details about your integrations. Which LLM model do you use, what are your custom instructions, and how do you use it in automations/dashboards.

I use Gemini 2.0 Flash, with no custom instructions and mostly use it to make customized calendar event announcements or for daily summary.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Gamester17 on 2025-04-03 11:27:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Yx2ucca on 2025-04-03 18:03:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iamtherufus on 2025-04-03 15:01:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/stuffthatdontmatter on 2025-04-03 13:47:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ginandbaconFU on 2025-04-03 13:42:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElementZoom on 2025-04-03 08:27:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Pivotonian on 2025-04-03 03:03:03+00:00.

Just a heads up for anyone who updated to Home Assistant 2025.4 and missed this (like I initially did): If you use OpenAI (or I believe Gemini) as your LLM, Assist can now search the web – but it’s not turned on by default. You’ll need to go into the integration settings and enable it manually.

Once it’s on, Assist can actually answer questions with up-to-date info from the web – not just whatever it can dig out of your sensors or scripts (or dated info that ChatGPT had access to). I tried a few current events (NBA games, news stories and questions about recent world events) and it worked surprisingly well (albeit not all 100% accurate which is to be expected with LLMs).

Together with continued conversations in this release, this is one step closer to Assist (and VPEs) becoming a real voice assistant contender – and honestly it makes me even more ready to ditch Siri. No more “I found this on the web – I’ve sent it to your iPhone” garbage.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ApartmentMelodic7689 on 2025-04-02 22:21:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/AbbreviationsFit6561 on 2025-04-03 02:07:39+00:00.