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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…

#HomeAssistant got me hooked up on logging everything. I've got four Wi-Fi thermometers, and I'm debugging heat pump efficiency.

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…

I'm on #proton now instead of Gmail, preparing to move from Spotify to #deezer and have already moved from google to #homeassistant.

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

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

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!

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

Does anyone know of any good smart light switches for home assistant? Want to still have a quite typical click mechanism for if the network goes down but be able to toggle remotely etc
#homeassistant #smarthome

I've got Eve smart plugs which happen to report grid voltage they see. I've noticed this is precise enough to observe wire resistance, and see how far each plug is from the breaker box!
#homeAssistant

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

Question for people who have more than one #HomeAssistant Voice PE: These things seem to have scary good microphones (mine will often hear me from two rooms over). That makes me a bit hesitant to add a second one to the mix.
Do they have some sort of de-conflicting in case more than one device can hear the wake word, the way iOS only activates one device when you have multiple devi…

My ZigBee mesh is now mesh due to IKEA bu^Wsmartplugs >> random Tuya from Ali. They do know how to route!
Random Ali sensors are more or less OK. #zigbee #homeassistant

#HomeAssistant is pretty good.
It has some quirks, but it's not as much hassle as I feared. I had to edit 4 lines of YAML, but everything else I wanted was in the GUI.
Finally, switch to the #Matter standard paid off. I can keep devices shared with HomeKit, while having way bet…

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…

@… @… #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.

Released v0.22.0 of the ha-mqtt-discoverable #python module.
New features: Lock devices
Thanks again to Steffan for all his work on the module.
#homeassistant @… @…

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

Released a new version of ha-mqtt-discoverable
#iot @… #homeassistant

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

HacktoberFest starts today.
If you know of crappy home automation or #IOT hardware, making a PR on #hacktoberfest submission.
@… #homeassistant

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.
@…

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