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Accidently rebooted my #homeassistant machine while it was doing updates - and now it is existing in a half-broken state.
Time to actually install HAOS on that thing, or virtualize the installation completely.

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeAssistant
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe home assistant bot.
Mention it in your homeassisitant posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the #homeasistant posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
There’s also @… - follow that and it will automatically boost everything you post with #homeassistant without you having to remember to mention the bot.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation, but these bots will.

Set up a second wall panel for #HomeAssistant based on a Lenovo tablet. I have no idea how people actually use android tablets in practice - the amount of abusive features, bloat, and rampant disregard for user consent is shocking. No wonder no one uses android tablets, I was once again close to shucking it out the window a few times, and I was just trying to get Fully Kiosk installed.

While implementing a custom #HomeAssistant control screen, I set a wrong GPIO pin and accidentally created a 100% natural organic cyberpunk.

Bei vielen Artikeln bin ich unschlüssig, ob ich sie faszinierend oder einfach nur traurig finden soll. 🤔🫣
Gutenachtgeschichte in #HomeAssistant
https://gnulinux.ch/gutenachtgeschicht

Thinking about making a new dashboard/card for my HomeAssistant that shows the planes I might be hearing at the moment, flying over our house, based on my ADSB receiver data.
#homeassistant #Adsbexchange

I found a great deal on a thermostat ($6 vs $100). The crucial factor was that it integrates with Home Assistant. My only gripe is that it has to be activated through a phone app first (even though I've used a fake email), and I wish it could be added to a guest network.
#homeassistant

Wiring up the new sump pump from the old raspi sump mess I had from the old pump (I made it messy; great project). Adding alarm details with the dry contacts on the newer unit. #esphome #homeassistant
I thought about using an old Pi like before, but I had a spare ESP8266.

It blows my mind that for £7 I can have a tiny computer with 5Ghz WiFi and program it to make hardware gadgets.
This time I've made a remote controller for PC fans. It sets and measures RPM, and integrates with #HomeAssistant
http…

Shelly has gadgets that work well with #HomeAssistant without any cloud or custom app nonsense!
Their UK plug is one of the smallest, and even doubles as a Bluetooth-over-Wifi proxy in HA
https://www.shelly.com…

Shelly Plus Plug UK

Huh. Did anyone see something like this before? I didn’t trigger any logins at that time, and definitely not from localhost and with that user agent. Is this what it looks like if a scraper found my #HomeAssistant Nabu casa cloud URL, or what’s going on here?

Is there no way to get TTS to play on my HomePod from Home Assistant if I don't use https with HA?
I have some mobile notifications set up, but it'd be really useful if I could get audibly screamed at if like I'm still awake at 11pm and stuff.
#HomeAssistant

I absolutely love #squeezelite for Android. It turns my #homeassistant dashboard tablet on the kitchen wall into a fully fletched #Lyrion client controllable directly from the dashboard and anywhere else.
https://lyrion.org/players-and-controllers/squeezelite/

#IKEA is replacing all #ZigBee based Smart Home devices by #Matter based ones. This might be the way to go for the future but it's forcing me to add yet another network to my #homeassistant just because I was too late to still get the perfectly fine ZigBee variant. 🫤
BTW: The new Matter devices come with a legacy ZigBee mode, but it only provides very basic functionality. The Grillplats switch does not provide power metering data over ZigBee.