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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.” 🤣

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Broskifromdakioski on 2025-03-18 17:32:45+00:00.

Hey everyone,

I've been trying to set up an automation in Home Assistant that alerts me before snowfall so I can move my cars. Seems simple enough, right?

But after trying multiple weather integrations, I keep running into problems:

• Open-Meteo: Doesn't provide forecast data in Home Assistant.
• National Weather Service (NWS): Installed successfully, but my METAR station (weather.khpn) doesn't have a forecast attribute.
• Weather Underground: No built-in integration.
• Pirate Weather: Provides hourly precipitation, but was wildly inaccurate for my needs.
• Other integrations: Require API keys or don’t work properly.

At this point, I feel like I’ve been going in circles just trying to get a basic weather forecast into Home Assistant. Why is this so difficult?

What I Need:

1. A way to easily integrate a weather forecast into Home Assistant that includes hourly precipitation data.

OR

1. The cheapest personal weather station that I can buy and integrate into Home Assistant for under $100.

I just want an accurate and reliable way to detect incoming snow. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/leonardvnhemert on 2025-03-18 16:19:37+00:00.

Heads-up for anyone planning to upgrade to Home Assistant OS 15.0:

Multiple users are reporting severe boot issues after upgrading from OS 14.2 to 15.0. This affects not just Raspberry Pi 5, but also Odroid M1, HP Thin Clients (T620), and possibly other boards.

Common symptoms include:

• Device stuck during reboot after upgrade
• Random fallback to OS 14.2
• Booting into Emergency Console
• Devices appearing dead (only recoverable with HDMI connected)
• Some users unable to boot at all without a display attached

GitHub is actively tracking the problem: 👉

Recommendations for now: ✅ Perform a cold boot (unplug power) before starting the upgrade

✅ Connect a display via HDMI when upgrading, to monitor for issues

✅ If you run headless: Consider skipping the 15.0 upgrade for now

✅ Backup your system before attempting the upgrade

This seems related to systemd processes blocking reboot and kernel hand-off issues on certain hardware.

Stay safe, make backups, and let the community know if you encounter the same!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BubblyAd6014 on 2025-03-18 09:21:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/alexfei451 on 2025-03-18 08:44:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/eodabas on 2025-03-17 23:36:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/d4nm3d on 2025-03-17 22:28:50+00:00.

Please correct anything I say here...

As I understand it.. Matter will allow other matter enabled devices (regardless of protocol) to trigger each other (in a basic sense)... So a bluetooth button can turn on a wifi bulb for example...

Isn't this exactly what HA acheives?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Turtle2k on 2025-03-17 21:45:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mrbmi513 on 2025-03-17 18:25:05+00:00.

Just wanted to take a moment to show some gratitude towards the HA team for having such a complete and functioning backup system now!

We lost power this weekend, and despite the VM running Home Assistant shutting down safely, for some reason it decided not to boot when we got power back this morning. Luckily, though, I had the auto-backups turned on and sent to network storage. Within minutes, plus minor network setup, I had a brand new VM up and running with my data from before the outage like it never even happened.

I'm normally one to disaster test backups before I need them, but never got around to it here. Thankfully some great people work on this project and built a system that just works!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/checknmater on 2025-03-17 15:01:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2025-03-17 08:35:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hammelgammler on 2025-03-16 17:47:30+00:00.

So I could not login since a month or so, but was still authenticated via the iOS App, which is why I was not bothering.

Today I changed my password and saw that there was a new User “LovelyHackerNextDoor”, and from what I can see a backup was created (and I guess downloaded) by this hacker. I guess this person also changed my password.

In theory, is there any real harm a hacker can do when he has access to a Home Assistant instance? I don’t have any personal stuff in HA itself, but it is running on the same server my Nextcloud is running. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing of value in my HA data itself, besides maybe all the stuff Teslamate is logging.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Khaaaaannnn on 2025-03-17 06:23:37+00:00.

After playing with N8N for a few days, I realized how cool it would be to use it with Assist in Home Assistant. Welp, after a few hours of tinkering I managed to get a PoC up and running.

I’m using Webhook nodes to trick the Ollama integration into thinking my N8N server is its endpoint. This lets it work with Assist. Getting the response to assist and stuff working was a pain.

So far I’ve tested the home assistant nodes in N8N as well as the Google Calendar AI agent tools. At this moment I can have it turn my lights on and off (vis N8N only), as well as telll me about my Google Calendar and or add events.

You want Assist to have RAG? It can now. Long term memory? Yep. Use MCP serves? Sure can.

Assist can be a flow blow AI agent now!!

The possibilities are pretty much endless!!!

Here’s a rough YouTube video of it in action.

I’m tired now, that’s was a stupid amount of work 😂. Time for sleep

If you all want a tutorial, holler and I might be able to get one out soon.

I’m either very sleep deprived or this is goning to be next level cool.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mvoska on 2025-03-16 18:44:53+00:00.

Looks like I'm the second one who took this weekend to build a Home Assistant MCP server

I wanted to expose my Home Assistant instance to Claude Code / Cursor so when I was editing my home assistant config folder, it had the context of my entities, devices, etc.

Why build a new MCP server?

1. I couldn't get the built in MCP server working (via MCP Proxy or from running the inspector)
2. I thought it would be more reliable by connecting directly to the HASS API instead of going through the assist flow.
3. None of the existing MCP servers I could find worked.

Overview:

• Entity Management: Get states, control devices, and search for entities
• Domain Summaries: Get high-level information about entity types
• Automation Support: List and control automations
• Guided Conversations: Use prompts for common tasks like creating automations
• Smart Search: Find entities by name, type, or state
• Token Efficiency: Lean JSON responses to minimize token usage

Tools

• get_version: Get the Home Assistant version
• get_entity: Get the state of a specific entity
• entity_action: Perform actions on entities (turn on, off, toggle)
• list_entities: Get a list of entities with optional filtering
• search_entities_tool: Search for entities matching a query
• domain_summary_tool: Get a summary of a domain's entities
• list_automations: Get a list of all automations
• call_service_tool: Call any Home Assistant service
• restart_ha: Restart Home Assistant
• get_history: Get the state history of an entity
• get_error_log: Get the Home Assistant error log

Prompts

• create_automation: Guide for creating Home Assistant automations
• debug_automation: Troubleshooting help for automations that aren't working
• troubleshoot_entity: Diagnose issues with entities

MIT License, so feel free to fork/improve. Happy to take feedback as well.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/matekind on 2025-03-16 20:48:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/General_crypto on 2025-03-16 19:21:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Abdnadir on 2025-03-16 17:56:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/accommodated on 2025-03-16 10:32:59+00:00.

Scroll down to the video, at 0:40 Home Assistant compatibility is advertised.

Amazing to see this. It's not just a note hidden somewhere in the specs — it's in their main marketing video. Like many others in this sub, I'm a happy owner of a bunch of Shelly products, and they work very well with Home Assistant.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Full-Specific7333 on 2025-03-16 04:52:00+00:00.

I put together a Home Assistant MCP server to use in Cursor. While MCP was included in one of the last Home Assistant OS releases, this project is meant to be used outside of Home Assistant—so you can integrate it with other applications, AI assistants, or whatever else you're working on.

Right now, it supports:

• Searching for entities in Home Assistant
• Controlling devices (turning things on/off, etc.)

It’s lightweight and easy to set up—just needs Python 3.11+, a Home Assistant API, and a long-lived access token. If you’re looking for a way to interact with Home Assistant from an external app, this might be useful. Let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas for improvements! 🚀

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/anarchyx34 on 2025-03-16 00:27:06+00:00.

Last night I used HA in a somewhat unconventional way. I was about an hour from home and was going to end up going home very late. Usually my cat gets wet food in the evening, but I figured no problem I'll just give him a snack from his Tuya-powered feeder. It's not directly connected to HA (except for via the Tuya cloud integration) so I just use the SmartLife app when I need to manually feed.

Of course, tonight of all nights it wasn't working. It tries to connect and then reports that it's offline. WTF. I log into HA and see in the Tuya integration that the feeder is going online and unavailable every 4 seconds. Something is wrong with it and it probably needs a reboot. Well how the hell am I going to do that?

The only way inside my network from outside that I could think of is through the HA terminal. So I used that (on my iPad no less) to SSH into my router, where I had to find the DHCP lease table in order to figure out what the feeder's IP address is, and from there I was able to telnet into the feeder (SSH inception at this point) and type "reboot".

It worked and my cat didn't go hungry.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/isrararrafi on 2025-03-15 20:35:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-15 19:25:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JUST1CE4ALL on 2025-03-15 17:41:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/NRG1975 on 2025-03-15 15:31:16+00:00.

I am interested to see what you folks have going , or have done.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/red1q7 on 2025-03-15 12:52:54+00:00.

I stumbled over home assistant a while ago and have it running on a server as a HyperV VM. It does some things but it feels limited…. Do I need to run it on a physical device with BT, Zigbee USB Dongle etc to unlock its full potential or can it manage with various bridges? I mostly dabble within the apple universe, but also got an Aqara and a Hama Bridge to include the Z universe.

Thx!