homeassistant

"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 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......

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....

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

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....

More info https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/releases/tag/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 https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/releases/tag/1.37.0

I'm following the settings on WLED's wiki for the WS2814 strip:...

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I am looking for a Soundbar, which I can Turn On/Off with Wifi and HA and connect via Bluetooth to Source. I wasn't able to find a list with supported devices, except a vague Statement about some types of LG Bars beeing integrated...

Try as I might, due to the abundance of various types of low voltage wire connector types, I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for....

We recently held our State of the Open Home 2024 live stream, where we revealed how we are thinking even bigger about securing the future of the smart home. During this stream we launched the Open Home Foundation, a new non-profit organization created to fight for the fundamental principles of the smart home — privacy, choice,...

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