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Anyone using Claude MCP for HA? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Like the title says. Anyone using Claude? How is it working for you?

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[–] anon947262949@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mostly use this claude-homeassistant project. It uses a simple workflow (make pull, Claude code plan/make your changes, make push) and has some handy features like validation and backups.

However, I will say that most of the automations that Claude makes kinda suck. Hard to explain but I have to iterate a bunch of times to get what I’m actually after. Not the end of the world but it uses a lot of tokens to ultimately make a handful of small changes. I love technology and even enjoy using some LLM products but I’m frequently disappointed with the results haha.

I’d say good use cases would be entity management and debugging automation traces. Besides that, I’ve found the uses limited.

Would be interested to hear if you find other impactful uses.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using the one offered here.

https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp

Before I configured Claude, I was completely lost with dashboards. With Claude, I had a couple of false starts, but I now have a fully working dashboard.

I have also used it to rationalize entity names for devices that have changed rooms/uses.

I have a couple of automations that are incredibly useful. I used Claude for all of them, but I will say a few of them needed tweaking.

Living Room blind: close blind if both people leave home. (we do not subscribe to nabu casa, had to be failed ping on phone). Then if either person returns home, open blind except if after sunset, then leave blind closed but turn on lights on driveway.

Washer/Dryer: We have a dumb washer / dryer. Used a 4 gang switch from Amazon to service 4 people. If you want to be notified when washer/dryer is done, press your button. If you want to unsubscribe double press button. Here's the great part. Log all washer/dryer completions in a Google Sheet. (yep, Claude did that).

I have a bunch of others, but this post is too long already. (nfc tags, motion detector, etc).

[–] anon947262949@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for sharing these and linking the MCP you’re using. I like the “subscribe” for notifications idea with a multi-person household and the total cycle logging. I’ve heard from others too that dashboards are a good use case but I haven’t tried yet myself.

My biggest Claude automation success was also washer/dryer. I have a stacked washer+dryer with power monitoring on the washer and a vibration sensor on the dryer (240V in US, annoying to get power monitoring without CT clamps in the breaker box). Washer vibrates the dryer sensor, etc. But finally got a logic flow where I can reliably get washer or dryer notifications using an automation to change a state machine and trigger notifications. Would have gotten frustrated sooner without Claude I reckon.