homeassistant

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I woke up this morning at 6 am with IBS cramps. I tried to go back to bed but I’d woken fully up so by half 7 I was sat at my PC with a brew for some uninterrupted tinkering....

I’m solidly leaning towards a Schlage Connect Lock due to its local only Zwave capabilities (which has the benefit of also extending battery life). I was strongly considering the Aqara U100 for its many features, but based on what I’ve seen I can foresee it being a nightmare to get working locally with home assistant and the...

I’m trying to automate my dumb roomba. For this I ideally need a couple of buttons. I’m lost at how to add another button, that would have a different name and a different sent byte....

Since my air fryer notification I’ve bought 2 more Esp32 Dev boards from The Greal Mall of China- AliExpress. A couple days later I’d read about MMwave sensors and purchased a couple of those too....

“Hur Hur that’s what a timer on your phone is for dude”...

It was a long running project, but I finally did it. I built what I’m calling a smart mailbox that communicates the presence of mail locally with Home Assistant via ESPHome....

This is surely common knowledge for some of you but I thought I’d share a story, as this just made me cringe...

I’ve got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn’t want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them “smart”, let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now…...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15144957...

This week I’ve been playing with Espresence, which for anyone that doesn’t know, is a program that runs on an ESP32 and tracks Bluetooth. It then has a guess where you are based upon the strength of the signal....

Next school year, my son will be left home after school for a few hours while my wife and I are at work. I’m looking for a way to detect when he’s home and have the front door unlock (among other automation scripts that are in place)....

I tried my hand at rigging a proximity sensor to the water meter in my house. Sadly it doesn’t have the spinning magnet for the sensor to pick up....

Well I totally borked my ZigBee network, and it looks like I’ll need to factory reset and re-pair everything. I ignored the warning, and attempted a channel change. Lost everything and can’t get any device to connect....

I’ve been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I’ve seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....

I’m struggling to find the easiest solution to connect a set of active speakers that have BT/Optical (Toslink)/Coax. I currently use a tablet to stream Deezer via BT, but I want to be able to use them in Music Assistant. I tried Bubblepnp on the tablet, but it’s too slow for that, it wasn’t reliable....

More info github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/releases/…/1.37.1

This seemed more balanced and upbeat than other reporting on the topic....

I posted this issue to HA’s forums and received no response, hoping someone here has some idea to help....

Finally we find out what the failure was

More info github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/releases/…/1.37.0