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The Home Assistant community is focused on expanding smart-home device compatibility and improving real-world automations, especially around lighting and connectivity. There’s also practical interest in performance/behavior during updates and in setting up the platform with popular add-ons and integrations like HACS, plus a specific BLE+Zigbee valve product review.
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Key TakeawayIf you’re building with Home Assistant right now, prioritize compatible devices and strong automations, while watching update-related performance changes and getting your tooling set up via HACS.
Your first Home Assistant automation shouldn’t be lights — it should be the thing you keep forgetting to doXDA-Developers
When there's a Home Assistant update available, CPU usage becomes spiky. After the update, power usage returns to baseline. This happens every updateXDA Developers
SONOFF Hydro DUO review – A dual-zone BLE and Zigbee water valve tested with eWeLink and Home AssistantCNX Software
How we achieved super-fast STT and TTS in Home Assistant using Siri's voice models on a lightweight Wyoming serverXDA Developers
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Tracking: Home Assistant compatible battery powered bulbs? / When there's a Home Assistant update available, CPU usage becomes spiky. After the update, power usage returns to baseline. This happens every update
Common questions on Home Assistant, surfaced from across the indexed web.
Do you need an LLM in your home?
With Google's introduction of Gemini for Home, they show off a sleek 3D-knit Google Home speaker that lets you talk to your house like a friend, handling multi-step requests like "dim the kitchen lights, play some relaxing music, and set a timer." Wait, change that timer to 20 minutes." It handles mid-sentence corrections flawlessly. It's essentially Google's smartest smart home companion yet. However, Google has a history of a cloud graveyard, and they consistently abandon hardware ecosystems time and time again, from Nest Secure to Dropcam to Works with Nest to Revolve. Now they want you to
As spotted by Hackster.io, the Zigbee Touch Keypad gives you full control. There's no need to tie the keypad to a third-party cloud, and it's not bound to any particular service, either. All you need to do is build a system that can accept Zigbee signals, and you're good to go. Here's how the creator describes the origins of their project: I wanted a door keypad that actually looked good on the wall — slim, wireless, no visible screws, no cloud dependency. Something I could mount next to the front door, punch in a code, and have Home Assistant react instantly. Off-the-shelf Zigbee keypads exis
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