16 stories tagged home-assistant, newest first.
202 points by trvrprkr | 155 comments
A closed GitHub issue on the home-assistant.io repo in which a user complains that an integration scanning their secrets was enabled without authorization, calling it a privacy invasion.
878 points by soheilpro | 196 comments
Substack post by Anton Frolov about commissioning an isometric illustration of his house and turning it into an interactive Home Assistant dashboard.
142 points by simonjgreen | 78 comments
A personal blog post describing an over-engineered project using ultra-wideband radios on trash bins so Home Assistant can tell whether the bins have been put out.
158 points by 2sf5 | 57 comments
Home Assistant blog post announcing that its cloud subscription service is being renamed, citing Big Tech's damage to the term "cloud".
339 points by Kwastie | 172 comments
GitHub issue on the homeassistant-volkswagencarnet integration reporting that login no longer works while the official Android app still does.
404 points by Vaslo | 128 comments
Home Assistant community forum post describing a user's setup of a fully local voice assistant using Home Assistant Assist and llama.cpp, replacing Google Home.
350 points by remuskaos | 183 comments
Blog post describing how the author uses Home Assistant, AdGuard Home and a cheap Zigbee smart outlet as a physical button to block distracting internet sites.
856 points by _Microft | 266 comments
Home Assistant blog announcement of Voice Preview Edition, an open voice assistant hardware device for local smart home control.
540 points by coherence73 | 301 comments
GitHub repository for Xiaomi's official Home Assistant integration, enabling control of Xiaomi MIoT smart home devices from Home Assistant.
327 points by slovette | 110 comments
A documentation page from Denys Dovhan's Home Assistant config describing how he uses home automation to get air raid and missile/drone threat alerts in Ukraine.
584 points by JohnTheNerd | 156 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author built a fully local, LLM-powered voice assistant to control their smart home without cloud services.
660 points by willcooke | 78 comments
Blog post about reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers for home automation and accidentally bricking a set of Christmas lights.
416 points by vintagedave | 154 comments
Ars Technica article on Chamberlain blocking third-party smart home access to its MyQ garage door opener while adding ads to its app.
1164 points by eamonnsullivan | 619 comments
Home Assistant blog post announcing removal of the MyQ garage door integration after Chamberlain Group blocked third-party access, recommending the local ratgdo device.
362 points by rcarmo | 152 comments
A blog post about building a privacy-friendly ESP32 smart doorbell integrated locally with Home Assistant; the page returned a Cloudflare 502 error.
492 points by kkielhofner | 121 comments
GitHub repository for Willow, an open-source, self-hosted voice assistant firmware for Espressif ESP BOX hardware that integrates with Home Assistant.