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SK Irrigation Manager: A Visual Rain Bird Scheduler for Home Assistant, Before You Install
A new HACS custom integration adds a drag and drop irrigation panel to Home Assistant with Rain Bird support, smart conditions and safety limits,…
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Thrift-Store Speakers Become a Stereo Pair with ESPHome and Sendspin
A Home Assistant community member turned two $11 thrift-store Yamaha speakers into a synchronized stereo pair using ESP32 amplifier boards, ESPHome, Sendspin and Music…
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Solar Flow Card: A Home Assistant Dashboard Card for Solar and Battery Systems
A new community-built Home Assistant card shows live solar, battery, grid and home power flow with a battery forecast, but it only displays sensors…
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PurrView: A Self-Hosted NVR That Tells Your Cats Apart, With Training Built In
PurrView, the successor to Yolo2Mqtt, is a self-hosted NVR for Home Assistant that detects when one object meets another and lets you label images…
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bitEngine Hub: A Dual-Radio Zigbee and Thread PoE Box Asks for Feedback
A Home Assistant community member is prototyping a PoE box that runs a Zigbee coordinator and an on-device Thread border router at once, but…