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#NodeRED zerschossen - #Sprachsteuerung für #HomeAssistant
Wer zu lange keine Updates macht, muss manchmal von vorne anfangen :-/

#HACS is moving to #HomeAssistant as Marketplace
https://github.com/hacs/integration/is

Update on the #homeassistant restore - everything worked almost perfectly. Three gotchas I found so far:
- The “restoring” page would just keep displaying, since after the restore, the service no longer responded to homeassistant.local. Luckily I saw my soundbar turn on, which is always a good indicator that HA rebooted.
- The backup seemingly did not contain the sound files I had uploaded, so my improvised temporary doorbell is borked until I upload a new sound file.
- The most interesting one: The zigbee devices did not reconnect initially, except for a single one, and the reason was interesting - I learned something new about Zigbee today.
Apparently Zigbee has a frame counter, and the devices will remember the last frame counter they observed, and refuse messages with a lower count afterwards. The backup contained stale frame counters, since the machine died several hours after the last backup, hence, all devices were refusing messages from the coordinator. The solution was to power-cycle all mains-powered devices. The battery-powered devices came back automatically after that, except for two buttons which I had to re-pair manually. Credits to Claude for figuring this out based on the logs.
Other than that, quite happy with the “restore from backup” on Home Assistant for now. Now I only need to reconfigure my two wall tablets to point to the new local home assistant URL, as the RPi has a different hostname on my network now, and the wall tablets used the local alias of the old machine for the connection, as I did not want to route them via the internet ingress through Nabu Casa. But that’s not the fault of the backup, that’s just me configuring my stuff weird.

Achievement unlocked: Control a Duux Whisper Flex with @…
#Duux #HomeAssistant

RE: #homeassistant

Genug Starkstrom-Leitungen für die PV-Anlage verlegt – Zeit für den feinen Lötkolben und das Elektronik-Lab! 🔌🛠️
Als erstes Projekt steht jetzt die saubere Integration der Anlage in #HomeAssistant an. Datenströme visualisieren, Automationen bauen und endlich die volle Kontrolle über die eigene Energie haben.
Lötkolben ist heiß, Oszilloskop läuft – jetzt wird gebastelt! ⚡️…

Well, since my #homelab server randomly died yesterday, I guess it’s time to find out how well the #homeassistant backup/restore system *actually* works in practice. Setting up a temporary HomeAssistant instance on an old Pi4 to make sure the house works again while waiting on the response by #Geekom on my warranty claim for the dead machine.

Minor post on using groups instead of devices in #HomeAssistant automations.
https://unixorn.github.io/post/hass/2026-10-17-use-groups-instead-of-devices/

Okay, it turns out that the media was missing from the backup because I had not actually *turned on* backups for the media, so... Yeah, kind of my fault. #homeassistant

Fcking up the ZigBee Sonoff dongle update to move to ember, and all of my ZigBee devices left my network...
It's really annoying that there isn't a single standard for resetting ZigBee devices. Blinking lights and pressing buttons in random order. And have to open up my doorlock to get access to the button to reset it, so it yet again can communicate with my #homeassistant…

There goes my Sunday afternoon
#HomeAssistant #SQLite

So now Home Assistant requires you to open its web UI via http in order to... change the web UI http settings. What the fuck could go wrong right? This has to be the dumbest change I've ever seen done in a software.
If the default settings don't work for you how are you supposed to do the first configuration of your instance?
#HomeAssistant #SelfHosting #Linux

Remotely access #HomeAssistant via #Tailscale for free
https://tailscale.com/blog/remotely-ac

Neuer Blogpost: Mein Smarthome bekommt ein solides Fundament! 🏠⚡
Ich habe #HomeAssistant containerisiert hinter #Traefik v3 auf einem Raspberry Pi 5 mit nativer NVMe-SSD aufgesetzt.
Im ausführlichen Erfahrungsbericht gibt es:
🛠️ Hardware-Stack & NVMe-Boot-Workflow

Kleines nerdiges Erfolgserlebnis:
Die Ansteuerung des Drehstrom -Wechselrichters für die Salon-Lüftung im Hackspace hat heute geklappt.
#Modbus #ESPhome #Homeassistant #Bonfiglioli

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.

New release (0.26.0) of the ha-mqtt-discoverable module.
- Minimum supported Python version is 3.11 now (3.10 is EOL)
- Add Python 3.15 support
- Stability improvements
- Improved documentation
- Improved mqtt configurability
- Dependency updates
Details at #mqtt #homeAssistant #python

Hmm, looks like no one has set up a #HomeAssistant community day meetup in Hamburg yet? Bit of a shame - would love to attend, but can’t organize one myself.

Updated #homeAssistant #homeautomation #smarthome #smartthings #internetoftrash #iot