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Vacuum MapGuard: Stop vacuum.start From Overwriting Your Saved Robot Map
A new custom Home Assistant integration makes vacuum.start clean rooms one by one so a full clean cannot redraw your saved floor plan.
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Panalume: A Drag-and-Drop Home Assistant Dashboard App, Still in Beta
Panalume (formerly Glasshouse) is a beta Home Assistant app that builds dashboards by dragging cards around, with no YAML, and a video walkthrough shows…
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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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NeonPlan 3D: A Free Live 3D Floor Plan for Home Assistant, Before You Install
NeonPlan 3D is a free, MIT-licensed HACS integration that turns your Home Assistant areas into a live, controllable 3D floor plan, with optional paid…
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LumaPresence: a Home Assistant add-on that learns how your house is lived in
A new public-beta Home Assistant integration called LumaPresence runs believable lighting while you are away, and learns from how your household really uses its…
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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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Home Assistant Supervisor Updates Itself: What It Did to One MQTT Broker
A Home Assistant user watched the Supervisor update itself and the Mosquitto add-on go quiet, so MQTT readings were missed; here is what that…
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Replacing an Energy Monitor in Home Assistant Without Losing History
A Home Assistant forum thread debates two ways to swap an energy monitor without losing years of Energy Dashboard history: rename the new entity,…
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Google Home Adds Local Matter Control for Philips Hue: What to Check
Google Home is rolling out local Matter support for Philips Hue lights, which should mean faster responses and control that survives an internet outage.
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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…