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Latest
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Ninebot and Xiaomi E-Scooters Get a Local Bluetooth Home Assistant Integration
A hobbyist’s custom integration brings Xiaomi and Ninebot e-scooter battery, range and status into Home Assistant over local Bluetooth, with only one model fully…
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Kobo HA Dashboard: Turn an E-Reader Into a Home Assistant Panel
An open-source project turns a Kobo Clara Colour e-reader into a low-power Home Assistant wall or desk panel, with a desktop tool that builds…
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MQTTCarPresence: A Wi-Fi Car Tag That Opens Your Garage Door via Home Assistant
An open-source ESP8266 device wired to a car’s ignition announces itself over MQTT, and a Home Assistant blueprint opens and closes the garage door…
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A Dumb Dishwasher Gets Smart: ESP32 in the Door Reads Its Own Serial Protocol
A Home Assistant community member put an ESP32 between a budget dishwasher’s control panel and main board, giving Home Assistant minutes left, temperature and…
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Cheap Zigbee Ceiling Radar Has a Hidden Settings Port, But Tuning Isn’t a Cure
A Home Assistant community member found that a cheap battery Zigbee ceiling radar hides a serial port holding all its radar settings, and tuning…
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Echo Wall Clock Runs Locally in Home Assistant: Timers on the LED Ring
A community custom integration lets Home Assistant drive the Echo Wall Clock’s LED ring with Assist timers, with no Alexa or Amazon cloud involved.
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One ESP32 Triggering Another in ESPHome: Three Ways, and the Fix That Matters
A Home Assistant forum thread about a garage door remote built on ESP32 shows the common mistake, a wrong action, and two sound ways…
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Ulanzi TC002 with Awtrix NG: A Local Home Assistant Voice Display
A Home Assistant creator shows how replacing the Ulanzi TC002 pixel clock’s stock firmware with Awtrix NG makes it a local MQTT display with…
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Give AI Agents a Mandate, Not Your Home Assistant Token
A community project called Home-Mandate puts a rules gateway between AI agents and Home Assistant, so an agent can be limited to what you…
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PHP2Shell and Home Assistant: Is Your phpMyAdmin Add-on Exposed?
Two critical PHP flaws were disclosed on October 21, 2026; Home Assistant core is not PHP, but the phpMyAdmin add-on is, and its patched…
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Matter Battery Sensors Die Quietly: How to Keep Your Home Working
A Matter Alpha writer’s presence sensors died at the same time and quietly broke their automations; here is what that means for any system…
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Nexus MCP: A Free-Tier AI Agent for Home Assistant That Writes Automations
A new custom integration lets Groq, Gemini, Qwen or Ollama models search entities, call services and write automations in Home Assistant, and it has…