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I have a wall tablet for my #HomeAssistant. It's a Lenovo tablet that is permanently hooked up to power. It is using the battery protection feature to stay between 80 and 20% charge to enhance battery life.
It just managed to run out of power and shut down. It's now complaining that it doesn't have enough power to boot, while literally hooked up to a power cable.
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Set up HA to sent a metrics to Prometheus over MQTT so I can scale the PostgreSQL server I have on my home cluster for development down when my PC is off:
#MQTT #HomeAssistant #PostgresQL

Looking for inspiration for organizing my automations in #HomeAssistant, so two questions to the mastodon hive mind:
- There are groups and labels - how do y‘all use these?
- what’s your naming scheme for the automations?
Mine are currently all over the place with a mixture of different naming schemes and even languages, and I want to move it over to a more future-proof st…

I've got the Glow Display (IHD/CAD) which works as an MQTT proxy for UK #SmartMeter readings. I can read them locally in #HomeAssistant. I've got near-realtime usage data from the the authoritative source that my energy provider uses for billing. Very cool!

Finally managed to hook my #GoogleNest in #HomeAssistant.
If you are in the same situation, remember to remove *all* Google credentials first. Home Assistant doesn't allow org accounts, only regular ones. I had Google Drive with my main account, which is in my own org.

Released v0.23.0 of the ha-mqtt-discoverable and ha-mqtt-discoverable-cli modules.
Details at #homeassistant

JFC how do people deal with modern Android, especially on tablets?
Just got a used Lenovo Tablet to use as a wall tablet for #HomeAssistant. During initial setup, the Google setup was like "Hey, would you like to download these random apps to get you started?". I deselected them all.
Then I got forced into a Lenovo setup which forced me to go through FOUR PAGES of r…

Model Context Protocol Server for #HomeAssistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mcp_server/

#Zigbee #HomeAutomation without :homeassistant: #HomeAssistant, instead all defined in :nixos: #nix /

Public service announcement for anyone interested in #HomeAssistant. I created @… to replace the dead @… group.
There is also @…

Ukraine Alarm integration with #HomeAssistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ukraine_alarm/

@… @… #homeassistant
I know I could download an older #HAOS disk image, back up, make a new VM, and restore but frankly that's more hassle than I want to deal with.
It would also be useful in the case where someone hasn't updated in many months and may need to move forward in steps to deal with versions that had breaking changes.

For a couple of days now, #Zigbee2mqtt in my #HomeAssistant has been randomly crashing, and the „watchdog“ function of HA is not automatically restarting it. I didn’t change anything about the hardware, I just updated the software (but not sure if it is connected to that). It’s been gett…

Is there a way in the UI for me to update #HAOS, but not to the most current version?
Basically most months I want to update to the last version of _last_ month, not the current bleeding edge of _this_ month.
I feel like this can't be that unusual a desire and I'm probably not looking in the right part of the UI.
@… @… #homeassistant

OK, das ist nicht nur alles in meinem Kopf! #homeassistant
Am 24.12. auch - Am Heiligabend!!!!!1Elf!
https://community.simon42.com/t/wiederherstellung-corrupt-db-und-zusammenfuehren-mit-aktueller-db/57901
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/restore-corrupt-database-after-nightly-purge/602377
https://community.simon42.com/t/home-assistant-v2-db-corrupt-staendig-sind-meine-historischen-daten-weg/36050

A fairly handy new app just released: #Aivi. It allows you to create iOS live activities that can be controlled via REST, for example via #HomeAssistant. Downsides: proprietary and another subscription, but at least it’s from some guy in Sweden, not a big company or shady startup. Will probably…

Aivi • iOS Live Activities over API | Smart Home Integration
Turn any device into a Live Activity on iPhone with Aivi's simple HTTP API. Perfect for Home Assistant, smart home devices, 3D printers, EV charging & IoT.

FYI for those of you interested in #iot - there is now an IOT tagpush bot in addition to @…
Tagpush bots are less hassle than the old @a.gup.pe bots because instead of having to mention the bot to get your post boosted, all you have to do is follow the bot and any messages you post with its tag will be boosted. You'll see what the bot boosts and not have to do anything special to have it boost other than add the hashtags you'd be adding anyway.
The @… bot boosts anything its followers post with #iot or #InternetOfThings
The @… bot does the same thing for the #homeassistant tag.
@…

Ohhh, there’s this which is cool: #SmartHome #Zigbee #HomeAssistant #IoT #HomeKit

If you have a #Nest 1 or Nest 2 that were bricked, #iot #homeassistant #homeautomation

#IKEA hat einige neue #thread / #matter Smarthome Geräte im Programm!
Ich hab mir einfach mal von allen, die lieferbar waren, je eins bestellt und sie in #homeassistant eingebunden.
🧵👇
Es gab:
ALPSTUGA: Luftqualitätsmessgerät
BILRESA: Einfach 2 Knöpfe
MYGGBETT: Ein Tür-/Fenster-offen Sensor
KLIPPBOK: Ein Wassersensor
und ein Bewegungs- und Lichtsensor namens „MYGGSPRAY“ 🤪

FYI all, portainer is giving away 3 node business licenses. #kubernetes support since the last time I visited their site, so I'm interested in checking how well that interacts with #talos.
Some of my #homelab machines currently just run a few containers in #docker_compose stacks for services my #homeassistant server is using like node red and I've been using #portainer for simple things like checking status or restarting things without having to ssh into those workers. Most of those containers are going to get migrated into my #k8s cluster, so it'll be interesting to see how well it works as a quick web interface.
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