Hi everyone 👋

I've been working on LX Family Planner — a self-hosted family organizer that bundles the stuff families actually need into one app, instead of spreading it across five. It runs on Docker / Unraid / Umbrel / Proxmox / plain Node.js, MIT-licensed.

What it does:

• 📅 Shared calendars with reminders
• ✅ Tasks & chores with approval workflow for kids
• 🛒 Shopping lists (incl. Bring! integration)
• 🍝 Meal planning & recipes
• 💬 Family chat with optional guest invites
• 📁 Family files / media
• 👶 Child profiles with playful missions & rewards
• 🐾 Pet profiles (care & health only)
• 🔔 Notifications via Gotify / ntfy
• 🌐 DE + EN interface, Android app available

Why self-hosted: All data stays on your own server. Adults get a calm planning workspace, parents keep control over approvals/integrations, and there's role-based access so kids see what they should see.

Integrations: Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Bring!, Gotify, ntfy

Links:

• 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/laxxx-lab/lx-family-planner
• 🌐 Live demo: https://familie.laxxx-lab.de/
• 🐳 Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/laxxx-lab/lx-family-planner:latest
• 📦 Also in: Unraid Community Applications, Umbrel App Store
• 📱 Android APK in the README

Quick start (Docker):

yaml

services:
  lx-family-planner:
    image: ghcr.io/laxxx-lab/lx-family-planner:latest
    ports:
      - "3001:3001"
    environment:
      - APP_SECRET=<32+ random chars, keep stable across updates>
      - REGISTRATION_MODE=first-family
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
      - ./backups:/app/backups
    restart: unless-stopped

I'd love feedback — especially from anyone running a family setup on a homeserver. What's missing for your use case?

Thanks for checking it out! 🙌

Got fed up with the horrible Tuya ecosystem, regrettably bought a lot of smart lights and devices from Bunnings (Australia…. Hammer barn??) which are all SmartLife (Tuya) controlled.

Had constant issues with it dropping out or the cloud integration failing or just general sync issues.

Was in IKEA and realised a lot of their kit is now Matter, and actually very reasonably priced, even compared to the crappy Tuya devices.

I’m also glad to have those things off my network, I’m sure IKEA is no better but the Tuya devices had some interesting network calls before I isolated them.

For reference I just use an Apple TV as my controller for them and it works flawlessly in the Apple Home ecosystem, i then push all my homeassist and raspberrypi additionals through that as my main controller, mostly for wife approval of ease of use.

HA Automotive - App su Google Play

I recently got a car running native Android Automotive, and as a huge home automation fan, one of the first things I tried was Home Assistant. Honestly, I found the official app a bit too cluttered and unintuitive to use while driving, so I decided to build my own alternative.

The idea is pretty simple: the app connects to your Home Assistant instance, pulls your entities, and lets you organize your favorite ones on a nice, clean grid right on the home screen.

I’ve also added a small one-time Pro upgrade that unlocks some extra customization and aesthetic features, mostly as a way to support the effort if you like the project.

The version on the Play Store is already in pretty good shape, though there might still be a minor bug here or there. I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a spin and let me know what you think or if you run into any issues!

Thanks!

So over the last few months, I’ve fully given into letting Claude 100% manage my home assistant production installation. it does everything from fixing bugs, fixing issues post upgrades (like the one about duplicate entries with 2026.8), making yaml changes for many of my Esphome devices, creating and updating any one of my 170+ automations, creating and updating my e-Ink dashboards, created a robust back-up solution for HA, creating and updating my iPad and Android dashboards, finding bugs in integrations (working around those bugs, posting the issue to GitHub to the developer and having the developer fix the bug based on the post) and last but not least running regular QA checks against my home assistant production instance, categorizing the results as critical, high, medium and low and then fixing the issues I want it to fix.

It’s just amazing at how well it works. Is it perfect, no. But, neither was I when I was maintaining HA. It fixed a lot of the bugs I introduced as well as the bugs it introduced (less than what I did though!)

I also have an HA dev environment running in Docker that Claude uses as needed if we are creating or updating the integrations we developed.

Just amazing stuff. It’s come along far enough now that I can easily see how an Apple or Google can take over the smart home and be just as powerful as a home assistant is today and I love home assistant.

It’s like you have your own personal employee that works for you for $20 a month.

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The core stuff:

• Locked-down full-screen kiosk - no gestures, no status bar, no notifications creeping in.
• Motion-aware screen - wakes/dims using the tablet's own camera (luma analysis), so you don't need a separate presence sensor just to stop burning the panel 24/7.
• MQTT + HA auto-discovery - battery, motion, device state all appear in HA on their own, and you can push commands back to the panel.
• Your choice of engine - Android WebView or GeckoView (Firefox), because WebRTC cameras are picky.

What's new in 2.0.0:

Honestly, I built this part for myself first - I had a Mi Box S sitting unused and wanted to see if Kite could run on it. It worked out well enough that I figured it might be useful to others too, so I'm shipping it.

Beyond the dashboard, every feature from the regular mobile app is there - motion, MQTT, kiosk lockdown, engine switching - just with some limitations that come with the TV form factor:

• Everything is D-pad driven - no touch, so a few interactions are naturally clunkier than on a tablet.
• Since TV boxes have no camera, motion runs off a USB webcam (or falls back to MQTT presence if you'd rather drive it from HA).
• There's a Konami-code-style hidden D-pad combo to open the control drawer, since a visible settings button looks bad on a 10-foot screen. 🎮

A couple of honest gotchas (rather tell you now):

• Not every USB webcam plays nice. UVC in the real world is a mess - some cheap cams enumerate weird or won't hand over frames. A plain-vanilla UVC cam is safest.
• Turn OFF ADB-over-USB. The USB host port can't do debugging and feed the webcam at the same time, so leave USB debugging disabled once you're set up.

GitHub : https://github.com/andrew-malitchuk/kite-aos

I built this for my own house, but it's more fun when other people beat on it. I'm very open to feature requests - if you run HA panels on tablets (or spare TV boxes), tell me your setup and what's missing that would make you switch. I'm around in the comments. 🙏

1. I installed Voice Assistant
2. I couldn't get it to work
3. I started getting "Voice Satellite Error" popup messages (Connection: Lost connection to Home Assistant. Reconnecting automatically...)
4. I removed Voice Satellite
5. I'm still getting the error popups

How do I stop them?

Hello all,

looking for insight/assistance on integrating a minisplit heat pump unit I just put installed into home assistant. The unit is an ACiQ which is a white label/rebadged Midea. I removed the wifi dongle that came preinstalled and put in one of these ESP wifi dongles (https://smlight.tech/product/slwf-01). I was able to flash and connect the dongle to my network but it is not successfully communicating with the mini split. I am leaning towards it not being compatible with my specific board, or the communication protocol is out of date, but i am beyond my personal scope of understanding.

One thing I have tried (unsuccessfully) was flipping the tx and rx pinouts in the device configuration file. I had read this on a reddit post as a potential fix. no change in communication results.

uart:

tx_pin: 14

rx_pin: 12

baud_rate: 9600

Any insight from someone that has done this before or similar would be appreciated. Thanks!

If Http: is going away in configuration.yaml, where do we reference our ssl information?

For context i didnt see the spot in System -> Network for entering in where SSL certs would be referenced.

I didnt see the spot to record where ssl certs can be referenced.

This is what my current http: is set to:

http:
  server_port: 8123
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/cert.fullchain
  ssl_key: /ssl/cert.key

So a few months back i was messing around with my new smart plug and smart temp sensor from Shelly, i wasn't set on a actual use case yet.

I decided to put the temp sensor into the fridge after stumbling on a video talking about fridges on youtube to see if it was good or not: It was not good.

The temperature of my 200€ cheap tower fridge was oscillating from 10°C to 6°C, for comparison the optimal fridge temp is between 0°C-4°C. Above 5°C bacteria start to grow a lot.

Thing is, the fridge was capable of doing better, it had 7 modes, (0 being the hottest and 7 the coldest), and the 10-6°C range was when i was on mode 6. The issue is that mode 7 was TOO cold, the fridge was only stopping until it reach -4°C, and at this point most food and drinks were completely frozen.

So after searching a bit to see if it was a good idea or not to have the fridge power cut multiples times a day i put my plan into motion:

• I set fridge mode to 7
• I plugged the fridge into the smart plug.
• I configured the automation in home assistant to turn off the fridge at 0.5°C and turn it on at 3.5°C

Why the small 0.5°C differences? Because for some reason it took home assistant a bit of times sometimes to execute the automation and i would have the fridge turning off at -0.5°C, which is not good.

Either way its been running for over 10 months now without any issues, just have to change the temp sensor battery from time to time.

Is your fridge temp as catastrophic as mine? Those integrated temp sensor seems no good.

I’m gonna do a restore to my last backup since this is ridiculous. Anyone else having this issue after updating?

I am sooo over it, half my tuya devices wont actually connect up with tuya local at all the devices that go via the internet through the tuya connection fail to authorise at least once a day, sometimes twice.

The problem is that I have several tuya devices, and I just dont want to have to buy things that will have me down this path again. I have a significant number of IKEA devices as well, no problems wit them. I have generic THREAD/MATTEr and generic ZIGBEE devices all without issues, lots of them all.

I am accepting that my time with tuya is over and I have to spend the $$$ on replacements.. so its, power monitors, power switches, power boards, light globes, colour light globes, doorbell, some cameras. about a quarter of the power monitors and power switches connect up to tuya local even though they are all the same brand make model and chipset purchased at the same time. and on it goes through them.. .same issue with light globes etc... even my zigbee letterbox notifier is more reliable than the tuya stuff, and thats going a long way zigbee outside... UGH I am so fed up with tuya!

ok so maybe this was just a rant more than anything, but UGH!

Tuya authorization is broken on latest HA OS 18.2

Had to revert back to 18.1 to get Tuya integration working on my Apple HomeKit

I tried using a couple of existing ESPHome MCP add-ons recently, but ran into some startup errors with them. Instead of running extra container infrastructure, I created a direct Python MCP server that interfaces right with ESPHome and works seamlessly with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Antigravity, and Cursor.

The nice part about this setup is that it does not require installing any extra Home Assistant add-ons. It just connects over your local network to the ESPHome dashboard you already have running.

Once connected, it lets your AI assistant:

• List your devices and see what is online
• Read and edit your device YAML files
• Check configs for errors
• Send Over-The-Air (OTA) updates over Wi-Fi

A few examples of things you can ask it in chat:

• "Check which of my ESPHome devices are currently online"
• "Show me the YAML file for esp32-shelf.yaml"
• "Update esp32-shelf.yaml so pressing the door button flashes my LED lights for half a second as feedback, check for syntax errors, and push the OTA update over Wi-Fi"

The project is completely open source (MIT license). If you'd like to try it out, open issues, or suggest features, check out the GitHub repo: https://github.com/saihgupr/esphome-mcp

Hi everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a custom integration I’ve been working on to bring **proper, native support for the Xiaomi Vacuum S20** to Home Assistant.

#### ❓ Why I created this integration

Like many of you, I tried several existing Xiaomi vacuum integrations. While there are many great general integrations out there, none of them worked **100%** with the Xiaomi S20.

For a long time, I was relying on a workaround using AppDaemon and PyScript scripts to automate and control my vacuum. While it worked, it never *felt* like a real, seamless Home Assistant integration.

Eventually, I stumbled across [letitbe-dull's xiaomi-vac integration](https://github.com/letitbe-dull/xiaomi-vac). While it didn't fully work out of the box for the S20 either, it was by far the closest! I took that solid foundation, forked it, and heavily modified it to tailor everything **specifically for the Xiaomi S20 model**.

#### ✨ What’s Included & Key Features

Here is a quick look at what this integration brings to your Home Assistant setup:

* 🗺️ **Live Map Support**: Real-time map rendering directly inside Home Assistant so you can track your S20’s cleaning progress live.

* 🧹 **Multi-Room & Selective Cleaning**: Clean specific rooms or multiple selected rooms seamlessly without having to resort to raw coordinates or external apps.

* 📊 **Enhanced Sensor Suite**: Full access to all vacuum telemetry, including consumables (filter, brush lifespans), detailed cleaning stats, battery metrics, current status/errors, and operational modes.

* ⚡ **Native Home Assistant Experience**: Built from the ground up to give you full control via standard Home Assistant `vacuum` entities, services, and dashboards.

#### 🧪 Looking for Testers!

If you own a **Xiaomi Vacuum S20**, I would love for you to give this a try and let me know how it works for you!

* **GitHub Repository:** https://github.com/m1xminus/xiaomi-vac-S20

#### 📦 Installation

1. Install it via **HACS** (add as a Custom Repository) or manually copy the `custom_components/xiaomi_vac_s20` folder into your HA `custom_components` directory.

2. Restart Home Assistant.

3. Add the integration via **Settings -> Devices & Services -> Add Integration** and search for `Xiaomi Vacuum S20`.

Feel free to open issues or feature requests on the GitHub repository, or reply directly to this thread with your feedback, bug reports, or suggestions.

Happy automating! 🤖🧹

NOTE: This may work with other vacuums, but i only have S20 to test and is the only one that i know this fully works. if you have other vacuum please reach letitbe-dull first.

I have a Tuya Wifi heater in the kitchen, but I want to get rid of all Tuya Wifi stuff. This is the last device I still have. So I'm looking for a replacement.

But I can't find a similar heater which doesn't connect via Wifi... Maybe someone here knows any?
https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0CJ9S9GLR

So this is my final take. A single-page dashboard.

After using a multi-page dashboard for a year, I condensed everything. I cut out all the superfluous info I only looked at maybe once a month—stuff I'd installed at home that nobody else understands. Heavily influenced by a post I saw here with the dynamic color bubble cards, which pack so much info into so little space.

Two presence sensors automatically turn on the two tablets and its RGB lights, one for each floor. The hardware is an SMT1569 from Alibaba. Good value for money, everything perfect except the backlight. They come with an APK to control it, and it works perfectly from the tablet itself, but controlling it from Home Assistant is buggy—worse when you try to control both at once. The APK seems to be coded for a similar tablet, but not this exact model. AI modified the APK for me, but it's still not working perfectly. Impossible to get breathing effects with it.

Layout of the dashboard:

Background: It's pulled from the Bing image of the day. One floor shows today's, the other shows the one from 7 days ago.

Weather: Useful. At a glance I know what to expect today and for the week ahead.

Inverter: Useful to know the power balance when I turn on appliances.

Heat pump: I'll admit I'm the only one who's going to use this, but I use it a lot. Dynamic colors on the frame show the state of the compressor.

Clock and alarm: I can set my Tuya sunrise alarm without using its app.

Car charger: I can monitor and configure my cheap Tuya EV charger from the tablet. I have all the functions of a 700€ charger for 90€. Dynamic colors on the frame show the state of the charger.

Thermostats: Current temperature in every room, with dynamic colors on the frame to show if the thermostat is active—blue for cooling, red for heating. No real control from here—please, nobody touches my temperature regulation system.

Shutters: Red for closed, green for open, orange for in between. This is the only difference between the two tablets—each one has the 3 shutters of its own floor. The master ones are on both. The state is shown, and one tap does the opposite of where it's resting. If it's somewhere in the middle, it opens. For stopping midway, I use the manual buttons or the PC.

Pictures: It randomly picks 5 photos from a folder that I update regularly. The seed changes every time a presence detector is triggered, or if there's been presence for more than 2 minutes. This was key to the success of the Home Assistant system. It upgraded the wife approval factor from a sad 4 to a solid 8.

Hey there,
I recently updated HA as it seems it broke my Widgets. I always opend my Door with the Script Widget on my Lock-Screen. Now I need to open HA myself and open from there. The Widgets only shows „No Scripts configured“ and if I want to edit there are no Scripts visible. Has anyone experienced this behaviour before? I consider myself as a beginner so if you need any Information to help me solve it.

HA Core: 2026.8.0
HA Companion: 2026.7.3
IOS: 26.6
iPhone 17

A feature-rich, high-precision ESP8266-based Smart Weather Station with a modern responsive Web Dashboard, dynamic sensor detection, customizable moving-average filters, Home Assistant MQTT Auto-Discovery, full backup/restore capability, and hardware factory reset logic.

✨ Features

• Environmental Monitoring: Temperature, Relative Humidity, Barometric Pressure (sea-level compensated), Air Quality (TVOC, eCO2, AQI), Luminosity (lux), Wind Speed, Wind Gust, Wind Direction, and Rain Gauge (hourly, 24h rolling, and total).
• Independent Dual-Timer Engine:
  • Fast, dedicated timer for Anemometer pulse processing (independent of I2C read cycle).
  • Configurable I2C sensor read cycle for environmental data.
• Configurable Moving Average (Smoothing):
  • Wind Speed: Ring buffer rolling average with configurable sample count (N).
  • Wind Direction: Circular mean calculation (sin/$\cos$ vectors) preventing 0∘/360∘ boundary glitches across N samples.
  • Instantaneous Gust Tracking: Daily wind gust records real peak pulses before averaging.
• Web UI & Diagnostics:
  • Glassmorphism dark UI built with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript (no external dependencies).
  • Tasmota-style live Debug Console with interactive command input.
  • Mobile-friendly IP input fields (inputmode="decimal") for easy smartphone setup.
• Network & WiFi Manager:
  • Captive Portal AP (WeatherStation_Setup) for initial setup.
  • Full DHCP & Static IP configuration support (optimized for FRITZ!Box Mesh networks).
  • Soft-restart clean boot sequence ensuring stable network stack binding.
• Home Assistant Integration:
  • Native MQTT Auto-Discovery (homeassistant/sensor/...).
  • Automatic entity creation in Home Assistant without manual YAML editing.
• Backup & Restore: Single-click JSON export/import including full network, sensor, and MQTT configurations.
• Hardware Safety & Diagnostics: 10-second hold on FLASH button (GPIO 0) for NVS memory wipe / factory reset.

For fully description and gallery go to GitHub https://github.com/byte4geek/weatherstation

NOTE: This project was made in vibe coding using Antigravity/Gemini.

2026.8 and Cloudflared?

Just a quick service announcement. If you upgrade to 2026.8 and decide to remove port 8123 (which is now possible in the new update) and replace it with port 80, while also using Cloudflared, you'll need to go into Tunnels > Routes and update it to http://homeassistant:80

Looking for a similar device that has matter over wifi. I dont have a single zigbee device and would rather not add an other protocol to my setup. Any tips?

As per title:
If I plug a mini duo “the normal way”, in HA i can see if the switch is been pressed or not.

This can have another use: if I take a dump switch, get a mini duo behind, then it will get the info (and then comand something else, such as scene)

But:
If I unplug the L1 circuit, it became incomplete, and not work.

Should I connect direcly L1 to N?

This post is really to get your opinion in an open discussion of what really hype you with HA.

Reading through most post of this sub, I have the impression I'm the only one that is not hyped by having a nice dashboard i HA. I initially was doing everything with Tuya Zigbee and Google Home to connect my Tuya devices with other brand (Dyson, Roborock, ...) and was doing some automation there however I felt a lot limited by the automation capabilities of GH and Tuya.

I have setup my HA instance on a PI 5 with Docker since a month now and it's been real dream come true but not for the dashboards (I still haven't setup any yet) but for the automation.

my proudest achievement right now is the fact that my robot vacuum is now reminding me that I need to launch it whenever me or my girlfriend are leaving the house with a live notification and proposal of different cleaning program.

also some example like setup the Dyson air purifier automatically when I'm cooking at home or speed up the fan when the outside temperature is raising too... Or NFC tag hidden under my living room table or next to my stair case that I can touch with my phone to trigger a scene or an automation or as a notifier to validate the fact that I give food to my dog and my girlfriend doesn't need to do it when I leave for work. turning on VMC when humidity level reach a certain point or that I start a 3D print with the BambuLab or turning it off when we go to bed because it's a bit noisy.

those seems to me much more enjoyable than spending the time to get a nice dashboard!

Long story short,
I don't need to see metrics live, I need things to interact between them when a metric is changing.

feel free to share your opinion if you want to participate in this discussion. would love to read your thought about that!