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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/tinwhistler on 2025-03-05 00:03:44+00:00.
I know I'm a total noob compared to probably most of you folks. I've had HA for right at about a month.
In that time, I've set up dashboards for my little 3d print farm. I can monitor and control all the printers and their webcams, keep an eye on air quality with my home grown ESPHome sensors, and kick on my Bento Boxes and air purifiers when printing toxic materials.
I've linked to my Vivint security apparatus and can view all my cameras and relevant sensors (doors, etc) though the doorbell camera is still eluding me at the moment.
My car exposes sensors to its associated app, and there's an integration, so I can see all that stuff on a dashboard.
And I've replaced all the lights in the house with zigbee bulbs. Which leads me to my automation..I just got a few Apollo MTR-1s in the mail today, and set up my first automation to turn lights on and off in certain rooms when they're occupied.
When I started this journey, my biggest wish was to avoid BambuLabs forcing me to lose functionality due to their upcoming firmware security update. But I'm really enjoying getting everything off of cloud services (like Alexa) and onto dashboards where I have more control and easier access with less of my data going to some big business to profit from.
Things to do: Set up Home Assistant Voice (hardware is ordered and should be here this week) as well as a local LLM. Swap out the Vivint doorbell camera with something more HA friendly and set up camera recording with frigate.
My dashboards are pretty utilitarian. But I figure once I get the house working the way I like, I can work on prettying up the UI and strategically placing some fully kisok tablets around the house.
HA is pretty typical for open-source in that it's not user friendly at all. I probably couldn't have done it without all of the intense searching I've done in r/homeassistant. So big thanks to everyone who's posted solutions in here!