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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/cat2115 on 2025-03-19 11:55:31+00:00.

r/homebridge To all the smart homes out there, here's a hilarious commercial to brighten your day!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-19 11:26:39+00:00.

I’ve had a routine set up in Alexa for over a year where if I say “Alexa, feed the dogs” or “Alexa, feed the puppies,” it triggers a script in Home Assistant that runs my Aqara pet feeders. It’s worked without any issues until just recently.

Over the past week, Alexa has started responding with, “The dog is hungry, are you going to feed the dog now?” instead of running the routine. It’s happened several times and feels like something has changed.

Is Amazon making Alexa worse on purpose right before they roll out Alexa AI? Anyone else noticing routines not working like they used to?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Mintsopoulos on 2025-03-19 05:55:53+00:00.

Just finished setting up proxmax and running HA on a VM. Pretty impressed with myself as I have never done anything like this before!

After Amazon’s latest news of all Alexa commands being sent to their cloud I decided it’s time to ditch it. Let the fun begin!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Nearby-Welder-1112 on 2025-03-19 02:32:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ifight4theusername on 2025-03-19 01:18:03+00:00.

I just wanted to share a config that is working. There is a lot of confusion and/or outdated information on what will or wont work.

My hardware:

• Lenovo m715q with AMD Ryzen 5 pro 2400GE
• 16gb RAM
• Amcrest 5MP IP5M-T1179EW-AI-V3

1. I misread this several times somehow, but my main goal was to setup home assistant as easily as possible on a spare mini PC I had, and I wanted Frigate to work for security cameras. So for anyone looking, yes, you can use an AMD Ryzen computer, with Home Assistant OS ("bare metal" no docker, no proxmox, no supervisor, etc). Follow the instructions here for a generic x-86-64 operating system install

2. Frigate's documentation currently states that AMD does not work for detection, but that's false. Sometime in 2022 I believe there was a pull request into home assistant to enable the mesa drivers, but the frigate documentation doesn't reflect that (it actually explicitly states you cannot use AMD GPUs in the installation docs as of today). I found some people stating the contrary and gave it a shot. It worked. If you have an AMD GPU you need to change the environment variables in your frigate configuration yaml. The note in the frigate docs has the syntax wrong. It needs to be

environment_vars:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: radeonsi

and NOT

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi as written in the hardware accel docs for frigate.

3. Amcrest 5MP camera is working with frigate. There is a high def and low def stream. To use the high def you use

rtsp://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&amp%3Bsubtype=0

and to get the low def you use

rtsp://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&amp%3Bsubtype=1

I used VLC to find the actual resolution of my streams. I never connected these cameras to an Amcrest NVR to configure them. The biggest gripe I had was the timestamp was wrong. I am 90% sure using the Dahua integration from fixed that. I had the wrong timestamps before using that, then at some point after installing that and tinkering I discovered the camera had the current system time of my mini computer.

4. With this processor, I had around 35% CPU utilization with just one camera working. Adding the google coral changed that to 3%. Definitely recommend getting the coral. My research showed people saying there wasn't a performance penalty between the USB and the other types so I used the USB.

I am not an IT expert, this was my first time using any of this equipment and I had it up and running (including flashing the OS) within 4-5 hours. You do need to have some coding or IT experience such as setting static IP addresses and basic coding/config file syntax knowledge. I just wanted to share a config that worked, even though a lot of places say it won't or recommend different hardware.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TrickSix6 on 2025-03-19 05:47:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/gtwizzy8 on 2025-03-19 01:31:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/patnodewf on 2025-03-19 04:08:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DerDave on 2025-03-18 21:56:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Economy-Case-7285 on 2025-03-18 19:27:36+00:00.

My wife just doesn’t get it. She texts me, “Why do you keep opening the door?” because HomeKit keeps pinging her iPhone. I’m like, “I’m testing different NFC tags with the door lock and doorbell… for science… and a blog post.” 🤣

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Broskifromdakioski on 2025-03-18 17:32:45+00:00.

Hey everyone,

I've been trying to set up an automation in Home Assistant that alerts me before snowfall so I can move my cars. Seems simple enough, right?

But after trying multiple weather integrations, I keep running into problems:

• Open-Meteo: Doesn't provide forecast data in Home Assistant.
• National Weather Service (NWS): Installed successfully, but my METAR station (weather.khpn) doesn't have a forecast attribute.
• Weather Underground: No built-in integration.
• Pirate Weather: Provides hourly precipitation, but was wildly inaccurate for my needs.
• Other integrations: Require API keys or don’t work properly.

At this point, I feel like I’ve been going in circles just trying to get a basic weather forecast into Home Assistant. Why is this so difficult?

What I Need:

1. A way to easily integrate a weather forecast into Home Assistant that includes hourly precipitation data.

OR

1. The cheapest personal weather station that I can buy and integrate into Home Assistant for under $100.

I just want an accurate and reliable way to detect incoming snow. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/leonardvnhemert on 2025-03-18 16:19:37+00:00.

Heads-up for anyone planning to upgrade to Home Assistant OS 15.0:

Multiple users are reporting severe boot issues after upgrading from OS 14.2 to 15.0. This affects not just Raspberry Pi 5, but also Odroid M1, HP Thin Clients (T620), and possibly other boards.

Common symptoms include:

• Device stuck during reboot after upgrade
• Random fallback to OS 14.2
• Booting into Emergency Console
• Devices appearing dead (only recoverable with HDMI connected)
• Some users unable to boot at all without a display attached

GitHub is actively tracking the problem: 👉

Recommendations for now: ✅ Perform a cold boot (unplug power) before starting the upgrade

✅ Connect a display via HDMI when upgrading, to monitor for issues

✅ If you run headless: Consider skipping the 15.0 upgrade for now

✅ Backup your system before attempting the upgrade

This seems related to systemd processes blocking reboot and kernel hand-off issues on certain hardware.

Stay safe, make backups, and let the community know if you encounter the same!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BubblyAd6014 on 2025-03-18 09:21:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/alexfei451 on 2025-03-18 08:44:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/eodabas on 2025-03-17 23:36:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/d4nm3d on 2025-03-17 22:28:50+00:00.

Please correct anything I say here...

As I understand it.. Matter will allow other matter enabled devices (regardless of protocol) to trigger each other (in a basic sense)... So a bluetooth button can turn on a wifi bulb for example...

Isn't this exactly what HA acheives?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Turtle2k on 2025-03-17 21:45:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mrbmi513 on 2025-03-17 18:25:05+00:00.

Just wanted to take a moment to show some gratitude towards the HA team for having such a complete and functioning backup system now!

We lost power this weekend, and despite the VM running Home Assistant shutting down safely, for some reason it decided not to boot when we got power back this morning. Luckily, though, I had the auto-backups turned on and sent to network storage. Within minutes, plus minor network setup, I had a brand new VM up and running with my data from before the outage like it never even happened.

I'm normally one to disaster test backups before I need them, but never got around to it here. Thankfully some great people work on this project and built a system that just works!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/checknmater on 2025-03-17 15:01:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2025-03-17 08:35:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hammelgammler on 2025-03-16 17:47:30+00:00.

So I could not login since a month or so, but was still authenticated via the iOS App, which is why I was not bothering.

Today I changed my password and saw that there was a new User “LovelyHackerNextDoor”, and from what I can see a backup was created (and I guess downloaded) by this hacker. I guess this person also changed my password.

In theory, is there any real harm a hacker can do when he has access to a Home Assistant instance? I don’t have any personal stuff in HA itself, but it is running on the same server my Nextcloud is running. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing of value in my HA data itself, besides maybe all the stuff Teslamate is logging.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Khaaaaannnn on 2025-03-17 06:23:37+00:00.

After playing with N8N for a few days, I realized how cool it would be to use it with Assist in Home Assistant. Welp, after a few hours of tinkering I managed to get a PoC up and running.

I’m using Webhook nodes to trick the Ollama integration into thinking my N8N server is its endpoint. This lets it work with Assist. Getting the response to assist and stuff working was a pain.

So far I’ve tested the home assistant nodes in N8N as well as the Google Calendar AI agent tools. At this moment I can have it turn my lights on and off (vis N8N only), as well as telll me about my Google Calendar and or add events.

You want Assist to have RAG? It can now. Long term memory? Yep. Use MCP serves? Sure can.

Assist can be a flow blow AI agent now!!

The possibilities are pretty much endless!!!

Here’s a rough YouTube video of it in action.

I’m tired now, that’s was a stupid amount of work 😂. Time for sleep

If you all want a tutorial, holler and I might be able to get one out soon.

I’m either very sleep deprived or this is goning to be next level cool.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/mvoska on 2025-03-16 18:44:53+00:00.

Looks like I'm the second one who took this weekend to build a Home Assistant MCP server

I wanted to expose my Home Assistant instance to Claude Code / Cursor so when I was editing my home assistant config folder, it had the context of my entities, devices, etc.

Why build a new MCP server?

1. I couldn't get the built in MCP server working (via MCP Proxy or from running the inspector)
2. I thought it would be more reliable by connecting directly to the HASS API instead of going through the assist flow.
3. None of the existing MCP servers I could find worked.

Overview:

• Entity Management: Get states, control devices, and search for entities
• Domain Summaries: Get high-level information about entity types
• Automation Support: List and control automations
• Guided Conversations: Use prompts for common tasks like creating automations
• Smart Search: Find entities by name, type, or state
• Token Efficiency: Lean JSON responses to minimize token usage

Tools

• get_version: Get the Home Assistant version
• get_entity: Get the state of a specific entity
• entity_action: Perform actions on entities (turn on, off, toggle)
• list_entities: Get a list of entities with optional filtering
• search_entities_tool: Search for entities matching a query
• domain_summary_tool: Get a summary of a domain's entities
• list_automations: Get a list of all automations
• call_service_tool: Call any Home Assistant service
• restart_ha: Restart Home Assistant
• get_history: Get the state history of an entity
• get_error_log: Get the Home Assistant error log

Prompts

• create_automation: Guide for creating Home Assistant automations
• debug_automation: Troubleshooting help for automations that aren't working
• troubleshoot_entity: Diagnose issues with entities

MIT License, so feel free to fork/improve. Happy to take feedback as well.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/matekind on 2025-03-16 20:48:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/General_crypto on 2025-03-16 19:21:23+00:00.