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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/thereversehoudini on 2025-03-12 00:21:25+00:00.

Based on grid and socket monitoring I've reduced my energy bill from £200+ a month to a little over £100 (I use gas for heating if you are wondering why so low), simple things like switching to motion and door triggered lighting, realising I don't need to use a gaming PC (250w) for simple internet usage instead of a laptop (30w), temperature monitoring my fridge interior to actually set it to 5℃, etc

Seeing graphs daily made it an enjoyable challenge to see where I could make savings and not feel like I've sacrificed any comfort/convenience.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-11 22:56:32+00:00.

Mornings in my house are chaotic, with two young kids (trying to get on shoes) and three dogs, there’s always something happening. I’ve been using a Home Assistant-powered desktop dashboard to track my schedule, but I wanted something even more hands-free.

So, I built a Good Morning Message that plays on my HomePod mini when I enter my office for the first time each day. It:

• Greets me based on the time of day

• Gives the current weather & forecast

• Reads upcoming events from my family & work calendars

• Uses Chime TTS for a natural-sounding announcement

The automation is triggered by an Aqara FP2 mmWave presence sensor, ensuring it only plays when someone physically enters the room. To make sure it’s actually me and not my wife or one of the kids, the system also uses ESPHome Bluetooth proxies, Bermuda BLE Trilateration, and Private BLE tracking with my Apple Watch.

I wrote a blog post about the full setup.

Would love to hear if anyone else has built something similar or has ideas for improving it!

Home Office Good Morning

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElementZoom on 2025-03-11 21:46:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/anonjedi on 2025-03-11 21:05:33+00:00.

So the changelog mentions the continued conversation. I have seen some commits (for LLMs and for assist pipeline) for this in HA 25.3 as well (I am running 25.3.2 now). Is there anything special we have to enable?

EDIT: to force check for update, I went to and I clicked on the refresh icon up there. Cant believe I missed this, I assumed HA restart would do it, but nope, this is the way.

EDIT2: seems that the commits were merged into dev branch, which will be released with 25.4.0 (at least it looks like its not yet included from this diff where you can see the relevant PRs). So just few more weeks. Can't wait!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Agreeable_Pop7924 on 2025-03-11 16:16:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/louislamore on 2025-03-11 15:36:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/yoyo1911 on 2025-03-11 13:19:05+00:00.

Finally! After a lot of work, I've released my AliExpress Package Tracker integration for Home Assistant! 🎉 I've been wanting a better way to track my orders, so I built this. Now you can too! It's super easy to set up via the UI and keeps you updated on your packages. Let me know what you think!

GitHub Repository:

I’m eager to hear your feedback and suggestions! Please open issues or pull requests on GitHub.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElementZoom on 2025-03-11 02:36:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/n1976jmk on 2025-03-10 22:02:13+00:00.

Text from Home Assistant’s LinkedIn post

“We're Matter certified!! 🎉

We've been ahead of the game with Matter implementation, and we're excited to announce both Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server are officially certified by the CSA. 😌

What does this mean for you? Find out on our blog 👇🏼

Huge thanks to Resillion for helping us with the testing for certification! 👏🏻”

We've been ahead of the game with Matter implementation, and we're excited to announce both Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server are officially certified by the CSA. 😌

What does this mean for you? Find out on our blog 👇🏼

Huge thanks to Resillion for helping us with the testing for certification!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ricardoreix on 2025-03-10 21:51:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/PoisonWaffle3 on 2025-03-10 20:25:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/HTTP_404_NotFound on 2025-03-10 19:22:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/tamay-idk on 2025-03-10 11:29:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElementZoom on 2025-03-10 09:48:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mr_poopie_butt-hole on 2025-03-10 07:10:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Phastor on 2025-03-10 05:57:00+00:00.

I run the HomeAssistant Docker container on my unRAID server. I'm starting to replace the 4TB disks in the server with 16TB disks. I just replaced the parity disk over the weekend. I did the rebuild under maintenance mode. This way no changes to any of the other disks would happen during the rebuild. So if any of the other disks were to fail, I could put the old parity back in and it would still be valid to rebuild the failed disk. But this also meant that no docker containers could run for the duration.

You don't realize how reliant you've become on your automations until they are gone. I've been using HomeAssistant for about three years and never realized how often I actually use something it provides, no matter how small.

The server hosts a bunch of my other services too, like Plex, photo management, etc. But the thing I missed most was HomeAsstant.

I have to do this again next weekend to replace a data disk, but I have a plan going forward after that that won't involve keeping the server down during a replacement rebuild. The place feels oddly lonely otherwise...

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/theseidlmeister on 2025-03-10 04:10:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/brinkre on 2025-03-09 22:10:22+00:00.

A-choo! Bless you!

With the HA Pollen radar integration you can see how many pollen are in the air for trees, grass and weeds.

I create a blog post how to install this integration and I added a few dashboard YAML code examples to show it in different ways on your dashboard.

See

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/andrewwjamessss on 2025-03-09 21:40:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/UnnecessarilySmooth on 2025-03-09 21:48:37+00:00.

If you are also a parent, you may well have found yourself in the situation where you tell your kid that ”this is the last episode”. You then proceed to do your adult stuff, miss that the episode has ended and the next one automatically started. Now you’re in the horrible position of either wreaking havoc and stopping the episode mid-episode (toddlers are the best aren’t they), or let your words mean nothing and let them watch another episode anyway.

If you relate to the above, keep reading! I have for a long time found that it would be awesome if the Apple TV could stop/turn off when the episode my kid is looking at ends. A kind of temporary ”auto-play off” button while I’m busy being an adult and can’t manually watch and stop the TV. Googled this and was only able to find other threads of other parents with similar ideas but no execution, let alone instructions for adding this to Home Assistant.

Full disclosure: I’m in no way a programmer, and have only been trying out Home Assistant for just over a week. Therefore -silly enough- proud of myself to have anyhow been able to figure out a way to get this working, and equally impressed with how easy Home Assistant made this for me.

Let’s also be honest that this is absolutely not perfect, but hey, it works for me, and hopefully better than nothing also for you who finds this thread. Here’s hoping someone who knows what they’re doing also finds this thread and comments a more beautiful workflow for this!

Right, enough back-story, let’s get going:

1. First of all, let’s make the button for you to press to activate this function.

Settings>Devices&Services>Helpers> + Create Helper

Here, select Toggle, give it a proper name such as ”Last Episode” and an icon you like for it.

1. Now the bigger workload: we make the automation.

Settings>Automations&Scenes>Create Automation

Create new automation.

When section, Add trigger. Select Entity>State, and find your Apple TV in the Entity window. Make sure it’s the one starting with ”media_player.” In the ”From (optional)” window, select ”Playing”. In the ”To (optional)” window, select ”Any state (ignoring attribute changes)”.

And if section, Add trigger. Select Entity>State, and find the toggle you made in step 1. It should start with ”input_boolean.” In the ”State” window, select ”On”.

Then do section, Add action, search for the ”Media Player: Turn Off” action (if you prefer the program is paused rather than AppleTV turning of, select the ”Media Player: Pause” action.). Click the green ”+ Choose Entity” button, and select again the ”media_player.” Apple TV entity.

Recommended optional is to add also in the ”Then do” section a second Action for ”Input Boolean: Turn Off”, and in the green ”+ Choose Entity” button, add your toggle we made in step 1. This turns the function off after having been run once, so you can avoid looks that could kill from your non-tech savvy partner.

1. Go to your Dashboard, select Edit Dashboard and add the ”input_boolean.” Entity we made in step 1 to your preferred place in your Dashboard. Mine’s just under my Apple TV card.
2. Try it out!

The drawback of this method is that the Apple TV turns off whatever you do. Pause, exit app, whatever. The TV will turn off. I have so far been unsuccessful selecting any other state than ”Any state” that makes this work as intended. Anyway, for me, I prefer this to nothing and find good use for it already. Also been able to add these as Scenes in my Control Center on my iPhone, so can quickly toggle also outside the Home Assistant app.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ImSorryButWho on 2025-03-09 18:21:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/PersonalJ on 2025-03-09 13:47:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Technical_Raisin_246 on 2025-03-09 12:16:53+00:00.

Two weeks ago we launched our first mmWave sensor and have already sold 300 units! I'm now focused on enhancing our users' experience even further. Today, I started working on the Plotly Graph Card path visualization, and here's the current result.

Sensy-One S1 Plotly

@iamdabe Suggestion

Does anyone have ideas or tips for improvements? For example, perhaps we could add a gradient to the tail of the path that changes based on the targets' speed. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Also, feel free to check out our GitHub repository where you can find the configuration files.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zealousideal-Sort988 on 2025-03-09 11:13:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iamdabe on 2025-03-09 10:43:30+00:00.