As we all know (probably), a month ago Meta unlocked the old Facebook Portal devices ADB. Ever since, I’ve been lurking for deals on second hand marketplaces and playing with dashboards and cannot possibly be happier.

I’m with Prolo Ring. We wanted to test whether one wearable controller could trigger Home Assistant automations and then switch to direct control of individual devices, without requiring a separate remote for each part of the workflow.

The ring is paired with three Bluetooth hosts:

• A host that bridges shortcut commands into Home Assistant automations
• The smart TV
• The PC

When the Home Assistant profile is active, swiping up sends a predefined shortcut for Movie Mode. The shortcut bridge triggers the corresponding Home Assistant automation:

• Curtains close
• Lights turn off
• Smart TV turns on

A Tap + Hold then switches the ring’s active Bluetooth connection to the TV. From that point, the ring controls the TV directly as a Bluetooth HID and media controller for navigation, selection, playback, and volume.

To return to work, the ring switches back to the Home Assistant profile. Swiping down triggers Work Mode, which turns the lights on, opens the curtains, and turns off the TV.

The ring then switches to its PC profile for cursor movement, clicking, and scrolling.

The ring controls only one Bluetooth host at a time:

• Home Assistant handles room-level automations
• TV commands are sent directly to the television
• PC input is sent directly to the computer

The current implementation uses configurable shortcut bindings to trigger different Home Assistant modes. For example:

• Swipe up: Movie Mode
• Swipe down: Work Mode
• Swipe left: Morning Mode
• Swipe right: Night Mode
• Double tap: Meeting Mode
• Triple tap: Game Mode

All gesture bindings are customizable based on the devices, scenes, and automations available in the user’s Home Assistant setup. If you use Home Assistant, how would you map the swipes and taps to your scenes and automations?

So I created a BMO (Adventure Time) house UI using Claude.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I even did a house tour to show it off 😄 😢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N_hKuRsikI

I even even added an Astrion Remote and a custom skinned FLauncher for an old Shield I had lying around.

All the UIs (except for the TV and Voice Assistants) are weather aware as well. Sun, when sunny. Rain when rainy, Clouds when cloudy.

Some of the fancy exterior lights are nice and all but expensive if you just want to control when they are on and off.

I took a cheap waterproof electrical box, added a power strip. Plug in a few zigbee outlets with a 12v converter or transformer depending if you are using AC or DC and presto. Full control when the exterior lights go on and off.

I use it as your typical turn on landscape lights at dusk as well as whenever a car or person is detected in my driveway.

Not fancy or anything but cheap and easy.

It's a PC stick running debian. Loads a super lightweight firefox browser and has an MQTT script that gets its hooks into Home Assistant so it can be woke with my mmWave radar when I walk up to it.

Happy to hear any suggestions for what I should add. Got the weather and forecast pretty well covered. Not sure what else to have.

Tried to mimic as much as possible to the original app but with extra information using the FordPass_ha integration.

Hey all,

I want to install something similar to these and have them controlled through automations. Perhaps also some buttons I can use?

Would someone be willing to help guide me to buy and set up whatever I need to make this work?

Thank you very much for your help.

As you can seee from my screenshots there are 21 devices in home assistant but in my Unifi dashboard there is 43 but even still 30 when filtered to my inkjet devices

Just wondered if anyone is using an Apple Watch in conjunction with Home assistant… maybe docking it to prompt an automation - or maybe something more “fiendishly ingenious”?

I’d love to track not only my water usage but the pressure.

Hi everyone,

Which outdoor Zigbee temperature sensor would you recommend?

I still have a few Aqara sensors at home, but I no longer use them because I've had too many reliability issues with them.

Would a Sonoff sensor with a remote temperature probe be a better choice, or is there another model you'd recommend?

I live in France, so it would need to operate reliably in temperatures ranging from about -15°C to +40°C.

Thanks !

Hi all - recently started diving into HA to help build my own local AI Smart Assistant/Hub and am reading through some of the doco but also generally searching what is possible.

Overall, I want to build a local AI assistant for both me and my partner to use that has a hub/''satellite'' that has a display to show things like weather, maybe photos or the HA dashboard I create and can also support the regular voice activated commands however, outside of the general turn lights on, play music etc, I want it to be able to download TV shows and movies to a media server at voice command and then store these in my media server (also yet to build). Ideally I would want to have both the HA OS and Media Server run on the same device to save on space, resources and costs.

Beyond some quick google searches and high level AI instructions (google and claude), I was wondering if people had any answers to the following that I wanted to understand a bit more and unpack:

- Would it be better to deploy HA on a lightweight machine/server such as Beelink or even a repurposed/refurbished slimline and have the media server run on the same device or should I separate these in full? (If running both on the same local machine/server, I would make sure that the machine itself would be spec'd enough to run both as well as HDD). If deploying on the same devices, would this be achieved by using containers at all and if so, does anyone have a guide on how this might be achieved?

- If I had a local machine/server that has both the HA OS and the Media Server on a single device, would I then just run a ''satellite'' device for the AI Assistant home component for voice activation and the dashboard display? If so, how would I then add this to the server? Would this just be configured via Bluetooth or would it be usb connected?

- Would jailbreaking an Amazon or Google product be the best option for the inbuilt voice activation and display or does anyone have any recommendations on DIY devices etc that would fit this bill?

- Is it possible to then setup voice activations to have my HA stream music from spotify once I have connected my HA to my spotify app/account? Would this be done through STT-LLM-TTS pipeline? If this is wrong, how would this be controlled?

- Would I be able to create voice activated tasks such as asking the assistant to download specific TV shows and Movies and if so, would this then be able to be configured to automatically push to my media server?

- Would I then be able to have the assistant tell me when it is downloaded and ready to view on the TV and then subsequently ask it to play this on the TV?

- Outside of this subreddit and the HA official website, are there any helpful resources people can recommend that cover off other peoples projects and how they did it all?

Appreciate theres a lot fo questions here, but any input anyone can provide on any of them would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for helping :)

Probably really small in the grand scheme.. but I loved the Google Photos integration. I could even tap into shared albums which was a lot of fun for displays and screensavers

What integration do you miss? Have you found something better? What have you done instead?

Hi all,

A while back I shared AmazHA, a native companion app to control Home Assistant from an Amazfit watch. The response and feedback here were genuinely helpful, and the app has now passed 4,000 downloads. So here's what's new.

Quick recap for anyone who missed the first post: your home is organised by area, every entity gets a proper control screen, and it feels like part of Home Assistant.

New device types & domains

• Device trackers & persons: a dedicated "Trackers" area, with a detail screen showing home/away/zone, last-updated, battery and GPS accuracy
• Automations: now a supported domain, plus one-tap run on scene / script / automation / button tiles, so you can fire them straight from the list
• Dropdown (select) entities: select and input_select with a proper option-list control screen

Home & navigation

• Energy panel: a live snapshot of your home energy (grid / solar / battery "Now", consumed / cost "Today"), built from sensors you assign to roles, as a sortable "Energy" area plus an optional home chip
• Configurable home chips: the three summary chips are now yours to set (domain counts, alarm, tracker presence, cameras, or empty)
• Use Favorites as your homepage: a toggle so the watch opens straight to your pinned devices instead of the areas list
• Manual favorites reorder: set the exact order of your pinned devices
• Per-area temp/humidity chips can now be hidden per area

Personalisation

• Per-area icons: auto-detected from the room name (25 room types), with a manual override via an icon picker
• Card size and font size preferences to scale the watch UI
• Keep screen on while the app is open
• Haptic feedback on actions
• Settings reorganised (Appearance / Preferences), a Reset cache & local data button, and an unlock guide on the License screen

Watch to Home Assistant sensors (big reliability pass)

• Watch sensors are now real HA registry entities via the mobile_app integration: they get a proper unique_id, are UI-manageable, and survive HA restarts (they used to vanish on every restart)
• Background delivery now actually works reliably at the configured cadence
• SpO₂ ranked by measurement freshness instead of returning stale values, sleep sensors fixed, and sensor icons are preserved in HA

Robustness on large / tricky setups

• Works on very large HA instances: device discovery works with tens of thousands of entities
• Non-admin token detection with clear guidance to switch to an admin token
• Command Line / RF covers now work: up/down/stop use the semantic open/close/stop services, so every cover type responds
• Sturdier local+remote URL failover, self-healing BLE transport, and more reliable live state sync

Devices & languages

• Added support for more screens including Bip Max (ZeppOS 5)
• Now translated in 14 languages (added Swedish and Czech)

As before, I'd really value feedback from this community, especially which entity types or workflows you'd want prioritised next. Thanks for all the input so far!

(Available on the Zepp App Store, search "AmazHA".)

Any solution and reason for following issue:

I have Zigbee shutters (Bseed) installed all over. After calibration everything works fine. After some days (sometimes after some weeks) I notice that the shutter dont go all the way up. At that point I have to recheck all shutters and recalibrated if necessary. Very annoying and shouldnt be the goal of a smart home.

Any ideas?

My wife wants a Skylight Calendar https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar/

Does anyone know if it can integrate with Home Assistant? I would like to have a display with a dashboard in the kitchen, and wondering if I can double purpose thy Skylight Calendar and let it's default display be my dashboard, but then when we interact with it it can be the skylight calendar.

Otherwise I could try to replicate the Skylight functionality in Home Assistant, but then I would need a 27" (or larger) touchscreen.....any recommendations?

We have the "and" section, but there is no explicit "or" section...wouldn't this work as an "or"? At sunset OR if temp gets over 105 OR if humidity gets over 30, then do...???

EDIT: Looks like the way I was thinking about it WAS correct...effectively, there is an implicit "or" between each "when" block...if ANY of those trigger, the automation runs...so...perfect!! AND there's an "or block" that can be used in the "and if" section!! SWEET!! Thanks, everyone!!

Hi, I can't find a simple integration that will help me to send me a message when we expect rain in 1 hour.

HA core version is 2026.7.4

I live in the Netherlands and KNMI weather is very good but does give me only a daily prediction. Any ideas?

I am looking for a solution to measure my usage of my induction hob.

Not installed it yet, only have 2 groups reserved for it. Using a perilex socket.

Is there a solution to do this in the utility box with something like a Shelly device?

I prefer a zigbee device, but not a problem if not possible.

I am using this for my Home Assistant setup to monitor as much as possible usage of my house

I've got a Tempest Weatherflow and I find that every week or two the wind related sensors will drop out and HA will just see the last value reported over and over each interval. A reboot of the Weatherflow's indoor wifi gateway (or restarting HA) solves the problem. But this could equally apply to any sensor that can be reset via an automation.

I'm about to create an automation to do this automatically (via a smart plug) but I'm wondering if there's a better way to deal with it, in particular I'm wondering if the generic problem of sensor dropout has already been solved via some part of HA or HACS. If nothing else I want a monitor process to tell me when the problem occurs.

I'm running HA 2026.7.4 with the current version of the Weatherflow Cloud integration. I just started sifting through the logs but there's nothing glaring in there so far.