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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/rickbus on 2025-06-04 08:37:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/londonsofa on 2025-06-04 08:51:01+00:00.


https://www.pcworld.com/article/2796619/i-wanted-to-dim-my-philips-hue-lights-all-i-got-was-a-pop-up-ad.html

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Tallyessin on 2025-06-04 02:26:20+00:00.


Finally disconnected my last Alexa device and put it away in a cupboard. Now have Voice PE devices in all the rooms where I use voice control.

I lose a little bit of convenience because Alexa understands me a bit better when the TV is playing, and Alexa could directly set my overhead fan speeds where HA voice control cannot. (But I have custom sentences for speeding up fans and slowing them down, so I still have voice control.) One of these days the intents will improve to the point where this difference disappears, I assume.

I lose a bit of granularity in the setting of light colours. HA/ChatGPT seems to be able to handle colour temperatures of white and primary and secondary colours, but gets stumped on colours like teal, mauve, apricot and fuchsia which Alexa handles quite well.

But I gain a lot of peace of mind in that Google and Amazon are no longer getting updates on what I do.

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Hey guys, very new to home assistant, have some smart stuff synced up like airtouch system, cameras, some smart TVs and plugs.

Just wondering what cool things can you do to start with to automate some things, I know some things are quite personal, but as experienced users, what are the game changers you had in the beginning.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Maskguy on 2025-06-02 20:21:31+00:00.


I made this ESP Home powered remote to troggle certain things in my setup with tactile buttons. It fits a ESP D1 Mini. Still needs to be powered by micro USB as I did not look into working with lipo batteries yet.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ForsakenSyllabub8193 on 2025-06-02 11:37:30+00:00.


https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1kz5w7j/how_i_hacked_my_smart_weighing_scale_to_work_with/

Update for those intrested check out this youtube vid i made

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jjinrva on 2025-06-02 17:19:58+00:00.


Hi everyone, if this isn’t allowed, please remove.

My 12 year old finds home assistant to be absolutely fascinating. He enjoys the backend mqtt/webhook stuff and the code for custom cards. Things that change automatically based on conditions, or custom logic from multiple sources.

He has asked me to see if anyone wants to use his “programming services”. His prices are $10/card. Haha.

So if anyone needs any help from a 12 year old entrepreneur, let me know.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FineCryptographer834 on 2025-06-02 16:34:32+00:00.


Just a heartfelt post to say thank you for this awesome platform and sharing in case this helps anyone!

My daughter suffers from epilepsy and loves to introvert in her room. We hooked up a baby monitor that we were hoping would let us hear if something happened. Unfortunately the other night she had a small seizure and no one heard it, she was able to crawl but was unable to speak. My son found her crawling down the hall trying to find someone and we were able to get her stabliized, she's fine thank goodness! But she's now (understandably) nervous to be by herself and so are we.

My nerd brain went to work on what I could do to give us something to notify everyone in the house if she needs help.

I created a webhook that toggles a boolean, if the boolean is flipped homeassistant sends notifications every 10 seconds with a sound to my phone, my wife, and my son. She can trigger this webhook from Apple Shortcuts via a shortcut on her home screen, the home screen of her watch, by saying Hey Siri, help, or by pressing a smart button at the top of her headboard, there's also a homeassistant widget on her home screen to toggle the boolean on in the event that apple shortcuts craps the bed. In addition to the notifications it turns on the lights in our master bedroom to wake us up if it's late.

The notification to each phone can be long pressed and then pressing She's Safe, this toggles off the boolean and stops the notifications to all 3 phones.

I'm sure this could be tweaked and improved, I'd welcome any suggestions or ideas.

Thanks for reading, creating, posting, and making something awesome. You've give a little girl some confidence back and mom and dad some small piece of mind.

Thank you kind strangers!!

Edit - The notifications are set to critical and full volume inside homeassistant, so they bypass silent modes and focus modes on the iphones. Tested and it works, the notification comes through full volume no matter what settings are applied to each phone.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/checknmater on 2025-06-01 18:34:22+00:00.


Just released AmbiSense v5.1, a major update to my open-source ESP32-based motion-reactive LED lighting system. This version brings in support for multi-sensor setups, enabling synchronized lighting across L-shaped and U-shaped staircases — a feature that’s been requested quite a bit!

What’s New in v5.1:

🔹 Multi-Sensor Support via ESP-NOW

A flexible master-slave architecture now lets you span long or multi-level staircases with radar sensors at multiple locations.

🔹 Zone-Based Input Switching

Decide which sensor takes control using these new modes:

  • Most Recent Activity
  • Slave Priority
  • Master Priority
  • Zone-Based Auto-Switching (recommended for complex layouts)

🔹 Upgraded Web Interface

  • Automatically detects connected slave nodes.
  • Configure zones directly in the browser.
  • Real-time diagnostics and network topology view.

🔹 Improved Diagnostics

  • View live sensor and connection stats.
  • Monitor ESP-NOW packet success rate, RSSI, and memory usage.

🔹 Enhanced LED Features

  • Directional Trails for more realistic motion effects.
  • Background Mode for subtle ambient lighting.
  • Center Shift logic & LED strip validation to prevent misalignment.

🔹 Web UI Overhaul

  • Fully mobile-responsive.
  • Supports live updates with built-in input validation.

If you're working on staircase lighting or multi-zone motion-triggered LED projects, this update should simplify things quite a bit. Happy to hear feedback or help if you’re building your own setup.

Links:

🔗 GitHub: Techposts/AmbiSense

📺 Demo Video: YouTube – AmbiSense in Action

https://preview.redd.it/2ku48wpn0d4f1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e7647a6c3f8b4fb9d5ccaec55d86c22e2d401a0

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