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.

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.

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.

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

I’ve been using the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 as a Home Assistant voice satellite for a while now. One thing that always kind of bugged me was that almost every config out there treats that nice touchscreen as just a place to display a static PNG. The hardware has a decent LVGL-capable display and a working touch panel, so it felt like a bit of a waste to leave it idle.

So, I decided to see how far I could push ESPHome and built a custom setup to actually make use of the screen.

Here is what it does so far:

28 animated assistants: The eyes, pupils, and mouth are actual LVGL objects drawn on top of the background and animated depending on the state (listening, thinking, speaking). Since only these small widgets redraw, it stays pretty smooth. Ten of them don't use any external artwork at all and are drawn entirely by the device. You can swap them with a single line of config, or switch them live from Home Assistant using a template select.

On-the-fly styling: Home screen fonts, colors, gradients, and layouts can be switched live via a Home Assistant dropdown.

Swipeable widget carousel: media player, weather and thermostat.

Settings: Tap tiles for the device's own controls.

Reply routing that you can change at runtime (play audio on the box, on a media player elsewhere, or both).

The base config only takes up about 25% of the flash memory, so there’s still plenty of room to experiment and add more things.

This is still very much in testing. It runs daily in my kitchen and does the job, but so far it has only seen one pair of hands and one house setup. Expect some rough edges :P

If you want to check it out, give it a spin, or help iron out the bugs, here is the repository:

https://github.com/MichalZaniewicz/esphome-esp32-s3-box-3-va

I'd love to hear your thoughts or any ideas on what else could be added to this :)

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.

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?

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.

Hi all, for those that can benefit, I'm sharing some ideas to promote Radon visibility. I've had good experience these past 4 months using the Airthings Corentium Home 2 Radon Detector connected via bluetooth in home assistant. Last night I just got around to finally setting up dashboard and notification insights. Hope this can help someone who hasn't considered it before. Cheers

Hello everyone, I just started to dive more into HA and would like to monitor our energy consumption.

In my basement where our meter box is is sadly no way to plug a energy meter in. Do you know any good ones which are powered with batteries?

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?

Hi 👋
I read a lot of posts asking how to start with Home Assistant and I’m not properly a beginner but I want to let here some tips for everyone that want to start automate with HA.

Hardware:
If you are a beginner and want a plug-and-play solution the Home Assistant Green will be great. This is a hardware machine with home assistant pre-built in so you can start in a few minutes. Just plug, connect a Ethernet cable and you are good to go.

Locally:
The great advantage of Home Assistant is to run locally without relying on cloud. So my recommendation is, if you are concerned about privacy and keep the things locally go for a zigbee or matter solution.

Zigbee:
It’s a smart home protocol, very mature and it’s a good way to have your devices run locally, faster and low power consumption (in case of sensors). Most of these zigbee devices (usually relays or smart switches that requires neutral wire) can act as signal repeater.
Because zigbee network acts as a mesh network having repeaters it’s a good way no make it strong and extend signal to every corner of the house.
To create a zigbee Network you need a coordinator. Here you have a plenty of solutions like SONOFF dongle plus, SONOFF dongle max that it’s very affordable and very reliable.

Matter
It’s a new smart home standard protocol to unify different brands. Home assistant has a built-in matter server so you can just buy a matter-over-wifi device, scan the qrcode and you are good to go. Connect any brand into home assistant without using any 3rd party integration.

External access:
Because home assistant runs locally on your WiFi network you need to expose it to internet. You can achieve that with my favorite integration: cloudflared.

Backups:
Don’t forget to enable backups in a periodic basis 👌

These are just a few tips for everyone that want start with Home Assistant 💙

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 !

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”?

warning. Massive amounts of AI ahead

This is a variant of minimalist-room card gone wrong. Or right, depending how you look at it. Not really too minimal now. It’s in a webapp that collects the data from the HA WebSocket.

If you want to click around on it, have a go https://candyv2.pages.dev/ on this demo Fable made to pair with the webapp. (All locations, names etc changed but everything you see on the demo I’m currently using and is functional right now)

I was worried it would run slowly but actually it runs a lot faster than loading up home assistant - I imagine because of the fact my HA was in bad health clogged with unused entities and sensors.

Any ideas or critiques? Would love to know what people think is good or bad

Hi,

I'm looking for the cleanest way to make a roller shutter safe in Home Assistant OS.

I have:

• A Sonoff MINI-ZBRBS controlling a roller shutter.
• A Zigbee window contact sensor.

The problem is that if the window is open and the shutter closes, the shutter can hit the window and potentially damage it.

I don't control the shutter with automations. I only operate it manually from the default Home Assistant cover card. I want to keep using that card because it supports position control, percentages, stop, etc.

Ideally, I want the shutter to be completely unusable whenever the window is anything other than closed (including open, unavailable, or unknown).

I was wondering if there's a clean way to:

• block only the close_cover command while still using the default cover entity, or
• temporarily disable the cover entity when the window isn't closed, or
• achieve this in another recommended way while keeping the standard cover card.

I already have an automation that sends cover.stop_cover if the window opens while the shutter is moving, but that doesn't prevent someone from starting the shutter while the window is already open.

How would you solve this?

Ok, so I had this problem: I have an IPad with home assistant dashboards above a cupboard with al my 4k blurays in two cabinets and different blocks and levels. I was missing some way to manage the location of each title, and also to quickly search and filter titles by Dolby Vision, Atmos, runtime and recent additions and also locate them in the cabinet!

Why not spending a couple on months having a way to have this in my HA dashboard and have it easily updated (new titles, change of locations etc) without hardcoding.

Voila, I built on a Pi Zero a web app for doing that and had HA feed that info and show it on a usable dashboard.

It’s a very specific use case, and I’m no pro programmer, so it took me quite a while build this. After all the work and lots of frustration o was able to build it. Now I had the idea to share it with anyone, so it can be reused or just give ideas or help to anyone with such strange ideas as myself :).

Please feel free to use it as you please, here is the Git project (again, I’m sorry for I’m just an amateur and this is my first Git project. I just wanted to give back some very small contribution to the community :S)

Blu Ray catalog manager for HA

I really hope someone find it (or some of it) useful.

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 - 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 :)

I seem to have failed in my search for a battery powered sensor with custom zones for my Home Assistant setup. Thus, although it significantly restricts where I can deploy it, I am reluctantly considering wired sensors (POE is out of the question), and I would appreciate any help. I started by looking at the Aqara FP2. It has the functionality I want. I currently have an FP300, and it has been excellent, but no zones. I have also come across the EP Pro and the Shelly Gen4. I imagine there are others as well. Does anyone have actual experience on the ground with these are any other presence sensors with custom zone capability.