Alder, da will man nur mal kurz für seine #Anker #solarbank2pro und sein großes FoxEss Solarsystem testweise einen #homeassistant Server aufsetzen um das zu überwachen und schon ist der ganze Mittag weg😅
#solar #pv_anlage #pvanlage #erneuerbareenergien

Published the results of my '2026 Self-Host User Survey' this morning, which received over 6,200 responses - a 52% increase from last year!

The results are super interesting and there were a ton of questions that surprised me. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://selfh.st/survey/2026-results/

#selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #survey #opensource #foss #homelab #server #ai #jellyfin #smarthome #homeassistant #forgejo #plex #immich #software #sysadmin #devops #formbricks #hardware

Habe mir jetzt eine Kostenansicht in meinem 3D-Drucker-Dashboard für #HomeAssistant eingebaut und Frage mich ob es nicht besser gewesen wäre es NICHT so genau zu wissen was der Spaß kostet :)

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Screenshot Dashboard. Links mit Kostenaufstellung und Prognose für den aktuellen Druck: 8€

For now, this is the most confusing device #NabuCasa has released.

https://www.home-assistant.io/connect/aux-2/

#homeassistant #smarthome #homeautomation

@DamonHD Yeahbut the WC is set by the installer based on their *calculations* of how insulated they *think* your home is and therefore what they think its rate of heat loss *should* be.

There's lots of scope for that to end up wrong, and even if it's right to start with things might change (eg people might change which doors they habitually leave open).

Or am I worrying about nothing? Are these calculations, done blind without any actual measurements, in practice sufficiently accurate that there's nothing much left to learn?

[I'm sure that any modern "simple system" has several computers in it and there's scope for another few k of code. And if not, they're all internet connected, the learning code can be on the server.

Like, I could write my own and run it in Home Assistant. But I don't like writing code which surely to goodness should already exist!]

#HeatPumps #HomeAssistant

Your Home Assistant automations just got smarter! 🎯

You can now exclude entities, devices, areas, floors and labels from targets.
Turn on every light downstairs except the kitchen? Easy!

#HomeAssistant #OpenHomeFoundation

Home Assistant 2026.11 est une grosse mise à jour : HACS s'intègre directement au système et prend la forme d'une place de marché, tandis que les caméras Matter font leur entrée.

#HomeAssistant #Domotique

https://www.igen.fr/domotique/2026/11/home-assistant-202611-hacs-devient-une-place-de-marche-integree-et-les-cameras-matter-arrivent-159153?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopost

I need a Bluetooth proxy for home-assistant (my HA is a bit remote from a device I want to control via Bluetooth, which is the only connection for that device). I read I need an esp32 for that but all the esp32 thingies I see are just bare boards. I want one in a case, ready to plug-in. It needs just Bluetooth and Ethernet or wifi and power. Any advise where to buy one? Preferably in the Netherlands. #HomeAssistant #ESP32 #fediask #dtv

New toys!
Tiny little #ZigBee sensors. One is a light detector, other is a presence detector. Both paired instantly with #HomeAssistant.
Now I need to work out how to write an automation that turns on the downstairs lights if it is dark and a human is detected.

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Small round sensor. About the width of a 50p but about a cm thick.

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Similar sensor with a dome on tip.

New blogpost:

"Automating renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates with Home Assistant OS"

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/11/automating-renewal-of-let-s-encrypt-certificates-with-home-assistant-os/

#HomeAssistant #HAOS #selfhosting

Зустрілись на He Assistant Community Day Kyiv 2026 #100дописівукраїнською #homeassistant #homeassistantmeetup #homeassistantcommunityday

#Libraries enable special interest groups, and people with common interests to connect in a safe supportive meeting space with support from skilled staff. #homeassistant #opensource https://www.openhomefoundation.org/community-day/?utm_source=luma

#HomeAssistant Community day #Montreal #Candiac #Canada #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@EarlyTwix ich kann meinen 3D-Drucker im LAN only Modus betreiben und über MQTT im #homeassistant einbinden.
Über dieselbe Plattform habe ich die Heizung im Wohnwagen und die Solaranlage eingebunden.

Alles lokal und per VPN.

JA, wenn man das auf die Größe von Edeka (Netto) und Rewe (Penny) skaliert, kostet das Geld. Aber #souverenität ist keine KANN-Option. Schon gar nicht in diesen Zeiten.

Viel Spaß mit dem #CRA

It's a bit of a slog, but this guide to getting #HomeAssistant working with Alexa is incredibly useful.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa.smart_home/
Of course, Amazon have changed the name and location of a bunch of the options so the guide isn't *quite* as accurate as it could be. But still, I'm one step closer to getting my home working the way I want.

Ahead of tomorrow's #HomeAssistant meetup in Reading (come along https://luma.com/jr8j4uam !) - I've finally transitioned some of my ZigBee lights away from Hue.

Now I'm wondering what I can do with an old Hue Hub. Any bright ideas?

I bought a #ZigBee mesh extender just in case my network had gaps. Looks like that's unneeded 😄

Need to get some door sensors. Any other gadgets you'd recommend which work with #HomeAssistant?

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Big mesh of interconnected devices.

Home Assistant 2026.11! 🎉

The Marketplace brings HACS right into Home Assistant 🛍️, exclude items from targets in your automations 🧠, entity naming gets a complete rethink 🏷️, Matter cameras you can talk back through 📹, LoRaWAN support 📡, dashboard sections that fill themselves 🧩, and 38 new integrations!

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/11/04/release-202611/

#HomeAssistant

I'm kinda obsessed with serial (UART) CLI interaction with Linux hosts lately.

To access a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant OS:

Mount the first partition on its SD card. Add

dtoverlay=uart2

to the [pi4] section in config.txt there, and

console=ttyAMA2,115200

to the kernel command line in cmdline.txt.

Then, connect 3v3 UART on GPIO0 (Pi's TX) and GPIO1 (Pi's RX), Ground on Pin 25 or 30 (see https://pinout.xyz/pinout/uart), and reboot.

Login: root, no password.

#RaspberryPi #HomeAssistant

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Terminal screenshot. I'm running the command: tio /dev/ttyUSB1 Output: [15:07:51.571] tio 3.9 [15:07:51.571] Press ctrl-t q to quit [15:07:51.642] Connected to /dev/ttyUSB1 homeassistant login: root Welcome to Home Assistant OS. Use `ha` to access the Home Assistant CLI. # [cursor]

Note that on a Raspberry Pi 5, things are different, I haven't researched any of that.

The Pi 4 usually has its Bluetooth adapter running on UART0, and UART1 is a limited "mini UART", which is why we need to move the serial console over to UART2.

See https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#uarts for the technical details.

https://contributors.home-assistant.io/os/operating-system/raspberry-pi/#serial-console also has instructions by the HAOS team, but they unnecessarily disable Bluetooth instead of just using UART2.

#HomeAssistant

@DamonHD @hzulla Nobody has told me to offset my #HomeAssistant automations - so I haven't! And it wouldn't be enforceable anyway, would it?

@nuintari
I have Wake On LAN enabled on the two computers in my Cloffice, which I trigger from my phone using #HomeAssistant.

One machine is a laptop, which doesn't power the NIC unless on the charger, so I have its charger on a smartplug, and made a little HA automation to turn on the charger, wait 10 seconds for the laptop to power up the NIC, then send the WOL magic packet.

Of course, it helps that HA is running on a little fanless PC, which lives in a cabinet under my TV.

Does anyone have experience using the Aqara P100 with ZigBee2MQTT and HA? I’ve set it to Zigbee mode, enabled "experimental_event_entities”, and it pairs fine. Calibrated. The sensors never seem to update once setup though, no contact or battery ever triggers.

Set to Matter and paired it to HomeKit and the door sensor worked fine. In terms of signal it’s close to a motion sensor that’s rock solid.

Any suggestions out there?

@homelab #Aqara #HomeAssistant #Zigbee2MQTT

New blogpost:

# "Fixing the unavailability of Tasmota devices after HomeAssistant restarts"

A bodge for what appears to be a common issue, but if it works, so be it.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/10/fixing-the-unavailability-of-tasmota-devices-after-homeassistant-restarts/

#HomeAssistant #Tasmota #FOSS

@bigvimto my big HA task was automating playing Tom Ravenscroft's rinse.fm show on squeezebox. Trying to figure out the expression for "the date of the most recent Thursday" hurt my poor brain.

(it was (3 - now().weekday()) % 7 or similar)

My other one this weekend is collaborating with a Polish developer on how to differentiate between a 14-day and 15-day glucose sensor from the serial number.

#homeAssistant

@scottdavidherr So this turned into such a stupid series of things.

• I go to add it to the Kasa app. It says “you need to add this to Apple Home first.”
• I don’t use Apple Home for anything, but I go ahead and tap it. “You need to activate iCloud” to use Apple Home. You know, the technology that lets things talk across the local area network? Can’t use that without iCloud.

I don’t use iCloud for the Apple home I don’t use. So now these are gonna get replaced with something less fucked up.

#homeassistant #homeautomation

Just to be clear: #HomeAssistant does not have a UI to delete timespans of (bogus/calibration) data? Unless you sift through the various tables in the sqlite db and manually delete the offending rows, those data will forever taint all of your statistics and graphs? 🤔

I hate upgrades. I upgraded #homeassistant and a bunch of my tp-link / Kasa smart plugs that worked just fine yesterday don’t work today. About the only thing I trust is #tasmota. I know it won’t randomly auto-update and suddenly require authentication and a connection to a cloud service one day.

I don’t know what has gone wrong/changed. But now I get to do some troubleshooting. Wheeeee

Est-ce que le changement de contrôleur zwave va réussir dans #HomeAssistant 🤔

🤞

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Capture d'une fenêtre avec un truc qui tourne et qui affiche : Démarrage de l'application

EDIT:
apparently I’ve done some sleep-sysadmin and caused this situation all by myself. See my conclusion here: https://social.patpro.net/@patpro/statuses/01M57MR2V0RXV3NVY14MM9KH5J

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Old post, you can disregard:
Spooky (and not Halloween-related)

I was auditing some firewall rules when I noticed a strange network traffic between a 3rd gen Shelly Plug and my Home Assistant VM. Lots of uninterrupted traffic.
Great news, it’s all HTTP:80, so tcpdump shows it all -> …"component":"script:1","id":1,"event":"ble.scan_result"…

This is really odd, as I’ve never used bluetooth on my Shelly Plugs. So I connect to the webUI of the plug, and browse to the script section where I discover this:

// aioshelly BLE script 2.1
// Script automatically installed by Home Assistant for Bluetooth proxy support
// https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/#remote-adapters-bluetooth-proxies
const queueServeTimer = 100; // in ms, timer for events emitting
const burstSendCount =  5; // number if events, emitted on timer event
const maxQueue =  32; // if the queue exceeds the limit, all new events are ignored until it empties
const packetsInSingleEvent = 16; // max number of packets in single event

let queue = [];
let timerHandler = null;
...

A 90 lines long script, injected into the plug without my knowledge, scanning the area for bluetooth device.

FFS What is wrong with these people !#@

#homeassistant #scanning #bluetooth #spying #privacy

@jwildeboer True.

However, it might be too early as it seems to be the case that the community is still trying to figure out pretty basic things how that #mesh should work.

At least in the local #MeshCore net, I'm able to read much (far not all) traffic, so I do have basic connection. I also get DMs from hundreds of Kilometers away.

Unfortunately, I do have hard issues of getting my messages through (local and DM answers to my far friends).

I've been told that some local repeaters might dropping packets on purpose when they do have particular modern properties like region attributes. This could explain some issues I've got. If that is true, the social foundation is still lacking the necessary cooperation.

Somebody I was taking to lately told me that he's connected 2 #HomeAssistant instances (~100km) using MeshCore for simple command propagation. That sounds reasonable and a good use-case.

#Meshtastic is also cool but more yolo-style for popup teams IMHO.

I finally managed to inspect the HTML in my dashboard and successfully card-mod it to do what I wanted*, without any help from grown-ups.**

* change a HASL card to show the platform in the correct Elizabeth Line colour

**I did actually post an issue asking how to do it, but then discovered it was easier than I thought and posted the solution.

#homeAssistant

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A card showing Elizabeth Line Eastbound departures from TCR in purple

We bought a separate freezer to have more space in the regular fridge a while back. It has helped a lot with reducing the number of trips to the grocery. But for the second time in as many months, I found the door left open on it. This time it was all day and everything is defrosted. 😭 Time to research door ajar alarms. Hmmm, maybe I can integrate it into #homeAssistant

Ok, this is slightly weird. The #ZigBee sensor in my fridge works overnight. But as soon as I open the door in the morning, it seems to lose the connection to the mesh.
WTF?
I need to put some more lights near the fridge to bolster the network - but that'll mean getting Alexa to talk to my #HomeAssistant box.

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Graph showing fluctuations in humidity until 8 am when the graph flatlines.

Also got some of these small temperature / humidity sensors.
They work pretty well. The one in my fridge *mostly* connects back to #HomeAssistant but occasionally just doesn't.
I possibly need more #Zigbee sensors dotted around to form a more effective mesh.

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Small white box not much larger than two AAA batteries.

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Graph showing humidity levels in a fridge - sometimes the line is just horizontal when no data has been received.

Sehr spannendes Projekt vom #AkkuDoktor

Ortsnetze gemeinsam sichtbar machen.

Ortsnetz-Auslastung ist ein Community-Projekt für mehr Transparenz über Spannungen, Netzfrequenz und PV-Ertrag in Orts- und Niederspannungsnetzen.
Die Karte
https://www.ortsnetz-auslastung.de

So funktioniert es
https://www.ortsnetz-auslastung.de/projekt

Also los Fediverse, da sollte hier doch genau die richtige Zielgruppe unterwegs sein.

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#EnergieWende
#Netzspannung
#HomeAssistant
#SmartHome

Comment l'IA ébranle-t-elle les fondations du logiciel libre ? C'est le sujet de la nouvelle série d'épisodes que nous commençons, où nous nous interrogeons sur les changements en cours et à venir dans notre écosystème.

Aujourd'hui @raphiki et @wawaxx reçoivent Marie-Alice Blete, qui nous parle de son expérience de dev, et de ses premières contribution à #homeassistant .

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/75-genai-opportunite-menace/
#ia #opensource #podcast

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Podcast Projets Libres : la GenAI, opportunité ou menace pour l'Open Source ?

Comment l'IA ébranle-t-elle les fondations du logiciel libre ? C'est le sujet de la nouvelle série d'épisodes que nous commençons, où nous nous interrogeons sur les changements en cours et à venir dans notre écosystème.

Aujourd'hui @raphiki et @wawaxx reçoivent Marie-Alice Blete, qui nous parle de son expérience de dev, et de ses premières contribution à #homeassistant .

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/75-genai-opportunite-menace/
#ia #opensource #podcast

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Podcast Projets Libres : la GenAI, opportunité ou menace pour l'Open Source ?

https://www.pieterbrinkman.com/2022/02/02/build-a-cheap-water-usage-sensor-using-esphome-home-assistant-and-a-proximity-sensor/

Merveilleuse application pour créer un compteur d’eau connecté et voir ainsi la consommation d’eau de ma maison…
Il m’a permis de détecter une fuite de 30L / nuit ! (Une chasse d’eau).
A recommander si vous avec un Rpi :-)
#rpi #homeassistant #watermeter #raspberrypi

@DamonHD Will read. I had in mind an experimental approach with my new heat pump - do what I'm told for the first winter (leave all the TRVs fully open (except, perhaps, for the room that's never used)) and see how it goes.

And then decide whether to refit the smart heads, controlled by #HomeAssistant , that we were using before (heating each room according to its use at each time of day). And then try something else out next winter. But of course each tweak to this experiment would take a year to evaluate ... (apart from the obvious failures which we abandon early because we get cold).

Looking for a #Zigbee switch that can directly control a group.

Tried the IKEA RODRET, came with the INSPELNING. It’s difficult to integrate into #HomeAssistant, the device immediately goes to sleep. Connecting it to a group never worked.

Boughht a Philips Dimmer Switch. It registers in HA, but can’t assign it to a Zigbee group either. And doesn’t generate events in HA, so it’s useless.

What switches can actually control a Zigbee group offline, and work reliably? Do you have any other ideas?

Local speech devices being set up and configured. #homeassistant

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Home assistant voice device

Quick write up how to setup Home Assistant to monitor if the washing machine is running using a smart plug and sending a push notification when it’s done. #homeAssistant #selfhosting #selfhosted

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/home-assistant-washing-machine-monitor/

If you ever need to buy some storage/drive cables/adapters/duplicators/docking stations, I can totally recommend the brand StarTech. I've had some of their devices over the years just by chance, but recently I have bought some adapters from 3 other brands, they all gave me one problem or another, then I got a StarTech and it works flawless. Next time I'll just start there.

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant #RaspberryPi @homelab @homeassistant

https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd

Folks, asking for advice.

Is there a device which:
- is an FM radio;
- is a BT speaker;
- can play internet streams;
- doesn't need to have an internet connection/external cloud service to be controlled through application/API;
- is available on EU market;
- doesn't cost arm and leg?

Bonus point if it is controllable through #HomeAssistant.

Random question on irrigation for the Fediverse. In-laws house has an old Hunter irrigation controller which appears to have been designed in the 1980's and requires an engineering degree to program, considering a more modern controller... but not one that requires any subscription and can run independent of the cloud if needed -- but can also support app-based programming and/or integration with HA or other DIY tools. Does such a thing exist? Bonus points for cloud-is-optional. Rachio? Orbit? etc. etc.?

(I do have an engineering degree, had to reprogram the thing for them after they had to change out all the leaking valves).

#random #irrigation #homeassistant

Quelle est la meilleure façon de flasher un #NSPannel ?
#Sonoff #HomeAssistant

J'ai finalement implémenté une approche par apprentissage (random forest) pour prévoir (on dit inférer) l'évolution de la température des capteurs de température intérieur et extérieur à partir des données de prévision météo locales et de la position du soleil.
L'idée est de pouvoir estimer l'heure à laquelle on va pouvoir ouvrir les fenêtres. J'ai déjà une alarme qui me réveille quand c'est le cas, mais je suis content d'avoir une vague idée en me couchant de l'heure de ce réveil.

Évidemment, avec 10 jours de données, pour l'instant le modèle est un peu spécialisé en début de canicules, mais plus on va avancer, plus j'aurai de données collectées pour améliorer le modèle.

C'est bien sûr open-source :
https://codeberg.org/jmfavreau/micro-climat-predict

#ChroniqueClimatique #canicule #simulation #RandomForest #zigbee #HomeAssistant

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température intérieure et extérieure mesurées et inférées

Suche ein #Linux UI, das mit merkwürdigen Auflösungen zurecht kommt.

480 x 1920

Mint und #Cinnamon ist leider raus.

Ist da vielleicht #Gnome das UI der Wahl?

Eins zufällig damit Erfahrung?

Will nur einen Bowser haben, der mir #HomeAssistant anzeigt, so wie im Bild.

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Kleiner Hochkant Monitor, der Gauges aus HASS anzeigt

Hmmm. Apparently #HomeAssistant can control some #Tuya devices locally.

But I was "clever" and put all of my #IoT devices on an isolated WiFi network so they can't reach anything else on my LAN.

Like, for example, the server hosting HomeAssistant…

It is functionally impossible to sensibly design a home network for IoT devices - as I wrote a decade ago.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/designing-a-home-network-for-hostile-devices/

If you have sensible advice on how you personally designed yours - please do leave a comment on that post.

Home Assistant 2026.8! 🎉

New OS installs no longer need :8123 in the address to access the UI, making it that little bit more approachable for new users 🏡, you can now set the Entity ID format for new entities ⚙️, we lay the groundwork for flexible device handling in future updates 🪏, more triggers and conditions 🌙, and 15 new integrations!

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/08/05/release-20268/

#HomeAssistant

RE: https://c.im/@jm_favreau/117007663499153053

Après avoir fait joujou une journée avec Home Assistant, voici un retour d'expérience sur la conception d'une station météo à base de capteurs ZigBee et d'un Raspberry Pi :

https://blog.jmtrivial.info/2026/07/31/une-station-meteo-diy-raspberry-pi-zigbee-et-home-assistant/

#ZigBee #RaspberryPi #HomeAssistant #Domotique #canicule #météo #LogicielLibre

mmu_man boosted

Jean Marie Favreau » 🌐 2026-07-30 / 2026-07-30
@jm_favreau@c.im

Bref, j'ai commandé de quoi me préparer une centrale météo pour savoir quand ouvrir les fenêtres la nuit en cas de canicule

#canicule #raspberrypi #ZigBee #capteur #température #domotique

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capteurs de température, antenne zigbee et raspberry pi

• #temperature

Here's the updated version without the em dash:

🚀 Tech Talk is back!

Ever wondered how to monitor your smart home like production infrastructure? 🏡

Join Mathias as he shows how he uses #VictoriaMetrics with home_assistant to keep an eye on what really matters, including pet water fountains, food bowls, and other home automation #metrics.

Watch it live 👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/n_aN4Z2Eb8I?si=E8fG-rl2Zuq8_YRC

#HomeAssistant #OpenSource #Monitoring #Observability

For less than $100 in parts(and some FOSS projects) I can get two different smart speaker configurations to test and an HDMI (720p only) Chromecast option.
If these work out, I'll start down my #HomeAssistant journey and being replacing my #Chromecast and mini speakers... #ESP32 #m5stack

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This image displays a partial list of five M5Stack products with their names and prices in an online shopping cart interface. Each entry has a small device image on the left, an M5STACK logo above it, and text on the right. The first item is AtomS3R AI Chatbot Kit (8MB PSRAM), priced at $21.50. The second item is ATOMIC Display Base (GW1NR), priced at $19.95. The third item is AtomS3 Lite ESP32S3 Dev Kit, priced at $7.50. The fourth item is ATOMS3R Development Kit with 0.85-inch Screen (8MB PSRAM), priced at $17.50. The fifth item is Voice Pyramid Smart Speaker Base without M5Atom, priced at $24.50.

Our Tech Talk is back, hosted by Michelle Sebek - Head of Marketing NA.
We're kicking it off with the most honest demo environment there is: a real house with real pets. 🏡🐈

Mathias, one of our Solutions Engineers, has one rule for his smart home: he should be the only reason the lights don't turn on. Not a cloud outage. Not a vendor abandoning a perfectly working device.

Everything runs locally:
🏠 #HomeAssistant
📊 VictoriaMetrics
📂 Alerting rules in #Git
📲 Notifications through ntf

New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.

Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.

Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.

Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.

https://blog.hofstede.it/my-home-assistant-setup-bhyve-freebsd-jails-zigbee-homematic-and-matter-over-thread/

#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting