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Home Assistant

Tracked in 2 AFBytes stories. First seen Jun 03, 2026. Last seen Jun 03, 2026.

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Bring in some stability

I need to see some stability. Getting frustrated by the high frequency of updates that always seem to break or deprecate something. I am a user that expects thi...

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Smlight Ultima

SMLight SLZB-Ultima Review (Home Assistant) Background I've been using SMLight coordinators for quite some time in a Home Assistant environment and recently mig...

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Vesync devices

Will Vesync integration ever get more air fryers added? There is only one air fryer and it is not the one I have.

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Why is thread/matter an absolute dumpster fire

I've been sat here for 2 days trying to pair/commission a Ikea Kajplats bulb to my home assistant. I have an IOT vlan with Home Assistant, OTBR, Matter sever d...

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Battle of the automations? Sigh

Hola all Got a odd one, so I have 3 automations One turns on my splits, sets heat mode and target temp if OAT is below a value Second if the OAT is in range ...

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Smart Air Freshener for Toilet

I build a smart air freshener using this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUkuQgKljo. Thank you so much 3ATIVE VFX. It's working great, but my wi...

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Using iFrame card for addons - How to do?

I tried to use iFrame cards rather than the sidebar to display apps / addons - e.g. AdGuard Home. This works - but then the sidebar is displayed as well next t...

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EUC battery level sensor

I have Inmotion v9 electric unicycle. Is there way to see battery level of EUC in home assistant? I would also want to switch electric outlet off when battery i...

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Device with local RF control?

Hi guys, I see HA has added RF support. The easiest device to use it seems is the Broadlink RM Pro. However, it appears to still require cloud access. Is there...

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HA and picoclaw

At SMHUB there is a possibility to install picoclaw, Has anyone tried it yet, and what benefits there are to use it? What I've understood, it's an easy way to ...

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Open and closed wording on curtains

I have curtains through two different integrations and they don't agree on the direction these are actually the same device So it seems like there is no ag...

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Tuya local plug options

I'm trying out the different versions of tuya localTuya seems to just let you link up data points to different things And then it's up to you to choose the cor...

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Laptop + HDD vs SSD vs mini PC as server?

Hi everyone, I'm choosing a server to use, mainly for HA but I think I'll run Docker on it for other projects. I've narrowed it down to a few options, but am a...

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ZWave JS multicast

I was referencing this: And am still trying to get my zwave to multicast to smartwings blinds to see if I can get them to come down at the exact same time. T...

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