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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/SwimMobile2183 on 2025-03-21 14:13:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Sailing_Engineer on 2025-03-21 09:09:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BenoitAnastay on 2025-03-21 00:36:16+00:00.

Hello,

It's been a year since I started to refractor the Paperless Addons for Home Assistant.

Today I'm proud to say that my addon is getting mature with many active users, I've just added Tika and Gotenberg support.

In case you don't know what is Paperless, it's a software intended to organise an archive all your documents, it can automaticaly tag those documents based on the content and it free you from the hassle of searching for documents.

If you want to know more, here is the link to the project

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DannyVFilms on 2025-03-21 03:15:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Intrepid-Tourist3290 on 2025-03-20 21:24:27+00:00.

I love the idea of mmwave, I love what potential it has.... I'm on my 3rd mmwave device and it's still not shaping up to how I thought it was going to be. Maybe I'm expecting too much here?

Linknlink e-Motion Max - When working, this was great, the software was easy to set up, I was able to create zones and have things trigger as I walked between spots. Sadly that lasted about a month, I'm currently waiting for a replacement unit. as far as I could see there wasn't an easy way to outline the whole room so I didn't use it for a room presence sensor, I just used it to trigger automations based on where I was standing. It was very easy to walk around the zones and set these up while using the app.

Aqara FP2 - While the sensor was the worst of the 3 I've tried, the software config side was far better than the other 2. You could define the whole room and it would exclude anything detected outside of that (well, if it worked it would) and you then defined your zones inside that. It was fairly quick to do and you could easily walk around the room without issue and set up your zones.

Sadly the sensor was beyond useless so it got returned.

Apollo MTR-1 - By far the most accurate and sensitive of the 3, while you could argue it's a semi hobbiest product given the 3d printed case and the extremely poor zone configuration app and manual config. The app relies on bluetooth to connect to the device to set the zones up but it had about 2 metres of range before kicking you back to the device list menu.

There are ways to do this via yaml or through HA using the controls there but it's not very straightforward.

A major issue with the zone configuration app is that you can't have zones inside of zones and you're restricted to 3 zones so you can either use it to track presense in 3 different rooms if you have the range or you can set 3 zones in a room and lose detection between the zones.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much, maybe I'm making far too many assumptions on the software side... but all the things I've seen these used for, I just can't implement without multiples of these.

I'm currently looking at the Sensy-One which can apparently do zones inside of zones but I'm beginning to think I should maybe give up on mmwave for a few years until it's matured more?

I thought I'd cracked the zone setup in the Apollo companion app, which is tedious to say the least... I mapped out the room with a lot of back and forth (the page where you define the zone doesn't show you on screen so you have to guess)... I finally got the borders as good as I could... set up a quick automation to turn lights on and off when presence was detected... all good!

Then I sat down and 5 seconds later I was in the dark.

I've turned it off for now, to try again another day...!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/lancelon on 2025-03-20 19:45:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Technical_Raisin_246 on 2025-03-20 19:03:05+00:00.

Hi everyone! In our last post, we asked whether we should make a PoE (Power over Ethernet) version of our existing mmWave sensor, the Sensy-One S1, and your overwhelming response made our decision an easy one! We’re excited to announce that the PoE version is now in development!

ESP32-S3-POE-ETH (dev)

If you don’t need PoE, the original Sensy-One S1 is still available, and if you want to be the first to know when the PoE model launches (targeting early to mid-April), make sure to subscribe on our website for updates!

In the meantime, you can check out our YouTube video for an in-depth look at the S1 and explore our GitHub repository for all the documentation. Thanks again for your support, and I can’t wait to share more news soon!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iamtherufus on 2025-03-20 16:43:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dmwizzard on 2025-03-20 09:04:23+00:00.

This new version is not only much easier to build, it's also cheaper. !!

Also, I've included a "MasterClass" of various ways to Automate in ESPHome. So, even if you don't build the Fan Project, I hope the Code break-down will be useful. 🤞

Check out the full tutorial here:

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MidgardDragon on 2025-03-19 22:14:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/matekind on 2025-03-19 20:48:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FistingSounding on 2025-03-19 17:35:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Lazy-Philosopher-234 on 2025-03-19 17:29:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Active-Arm6633 on 2025-03-19 13:58:07+00:00.

If you were to start all over again from scratch, the entire setup, how would you do things differently?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/cat2115 on 2025-03-19 11:55:31+00:00.

r/homebridge To all the smart homes out there, here's a hilarious commercial to brighten your day!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-19 11:26:39+00:00.

I’ve had a routine set up in Alexa for over a year where if I say “Alexa, feed the dogs” or “Alexa, feed the puppies,” it triggers a script in Home Assistant that runs my Aqara pet feeders. It’s worked without any issues until just recently.

Over the past week, Alexa has started responding with, “The dog is hungry, are you going to feed the dog now?” instead of running the routine. It’s happened several times and feels like something has changed.

Is Amazon making Alexa worse on purpose right before they roll out Alexa AI? Anyone else noticing routines not working like they used to?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Mintsopoulos on 2025-03-19 05:55:53+00:00.

Just finished setting up proxmax and running HA on a VM. Pretty impressed with myself as I have never done anything like this before!

After Amazon’s latest news of all Alexa commands being sent to their cloud I decided it’s time to ditch it. Let the fun begin!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Nearby-Welder-1112 on 2025-03-19 02:32:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ifight4theusername on 2025-03-19 01:18:03+00:00.

I just wanted to share a config that is working. There is a lot of confusion and/or outdated information on what will or wont work.

My hardware:

• Lenovo m715q with AMD Ryzen 5 pro 2400GE
• 16gb RAM
• Amcrest 5MP IP5M-T1179EW-AI-V3

1. I misread this several times somehow, but my main goal was to setup home assistant as easily as possible on a spare mini PC I had, and I wanted Frigate to work for security cameras. So for anyone looking, yes, you can use an AMD Ryzen computer, with Home Assistant OS ("bare metal" no docker, no proxmox, no supervisor, etc). Follow the instructions here for a generic x-86-64 operating system install

2. Frigate's documentation currently states that AMD does not work for detection, but that's false. Sometime in 2022 I believe there was a pull request into home assistant to enable the mesa drivers, but the frigate documentation doesn't reflect that (it actually explicitly states you cannot use AMD GPUs in the installation docs as of today). I found some people stating the contrary and gave it a shot. It worked. If you have an AMD GPU you need to change the environment variables in your frigate configuration yaml. The note in the frigate docs has the syntax wrong. It needs to be

environment_vars:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: radeonsi

and NOT

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi as written in the hardware accel docs for frigate.

3. Amcrest 5MP camera is working with frigate. There is a high def and low def stream. To use the high def you use

rtsp://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&amp%3Bsubtype=0

and to get the low def you use

rtsp://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&amp%3Bsubtype=1

I used VLC to find the actual resolution of my streams. I never connected these cameras to an Amcrest NVR to configure them. The biggest gripe I had was the timestamp was wrong. I am 90% sure using the Dahua integration from fixed that. I had the wrong timestamps before using that, then at some point after installing that and tinkering I discovered the camera had the current system time of my mini computer.

4. With this processor, I had around 35% CPU utilization with just one camera working. Adding the google coral changed that to 3%. Definitely recommend getting the coral. My research showed people saying there wasn't a performance penalty between the USB and the other types so I used the USB.

I am not an IT expert, this was my first time using any of this equipment and I had it up and running (including flashing the OS) within 4-5 hours. You do need to have some coding or IT experience such as setting static IP addresses and basic coding/config file syntax knowledge. I just wanted to share a config that worked, even though a lot of places say it won't or recommend different hardware.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TrickSix6 on 2025-03-19 05:47:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/gtwizzy8 on 2025-03-19 01:31:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/patnodewf on 2025-03-19 04:08:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DerDave on 2025-03-18 21:56:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-18 19:27:36+00:00.

My wife just doesn’t get it. She texts me, “Why do you keep opening the door?” because HomeKit keeps pinging her iPhone. I’m like, “I’m testing different NFC tags with the door lock and doorbell… for science… and a blog post.” 🤣