Smarter Thermostat with Home Assistant

I set up Home Assistant to automatically switch my thermostat between heating, cooling, or both based on weather forecasts, so it stops trying to heat the house on summer mornings or cool it on winter evenings.

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/03/smarter-thermostat-with-home-assistant/

#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

A €3 Zigbee leak sensor under an appliance is not clever automation. It just waits quietly for the one event I really don't want to discover by stepping into it.

The important maintenance is boring: test it with a damp cloth, check the alert path, and replace tired batteries before the sensor becomes decoration. #Zigbee2MQTT #HomeAssistant #smarthome

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Would it be an interest to anyone if I started a youtube channel around creating sensory safe spaces for autistic people using free opensource software?
I have spent a decade with home assisant building automations and scenes to suite my sensory needs. Wonder if anyone else would benefit.
#homeassistant #foss #autsim #asd #adhd #auhd

WashData - Home Assistant integration that detects appliance cycles and estimates remaining time

https://lemmy.world/post/49859670

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167

This one really touched a nerve, I’ve had a number of emails from real maintainers today sharing their stories that end up being way too similar 🥲

Thanks to the #HomeAssistant custom component WashData I'm finally looking forward to do the laundry! Data! :ablobcathappypaws:

https://github.com/3dg1luk43/ha_washdata

"Gentle reminder that website and app security is a legal matter and can cost you millions if you take the lazy route. : r/vibecoding" https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1n9tm4t/gentle_reminder_that_website_and_app_security_is/?solution=4621934202a942a04621934202a942a0&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ecc1e90c735b7fff6196df43202fb222bc&jsc_orig_r= via https://mguhlin.org

Petite automatisation du soir : uniquement quand je suis à la maison, home assistant va comparer la température de l’extérieur (j’ai une sonde) avec celle de l’intérieur et envoyer une notification pour avertir qu’il est judicieux en ces temps de canicule d’ouvrir pour faire baisser la température !

Ça évite de regarder toutes les 10 minutes mon home assistant pour savoir si je peux enfin ouvrir les fenêtres 😁

#homeassistant #domotique #canicule

Dayumn, completely misunderstood Pride Month, anyone want to buy 15 lions?

Ohh. This is going to consume free time. I was showing the Missus the energy dashboard in Home Assistant and remarking how I build virtual energy sensors. Someone else already did that work better. #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

GitHub - bramstroker/homeassis...

A sufficiently sophisticated output from an LLM is indistinguishable from one written by a human who didn’t bother doing their homework.

Hot take: DKIM signatures with ed25519 are largely useless🔥🔑

I know what you're thinking. RSA is bad. You read that blogpost with the "f" word. (It's not good.) This isn't about ed25519 vs. RSA, but about how DKIM works

Here's the problem: if you introduce a new crypto algorithm into a protocol, you need to know if the other side" supports it. But in DKIM, you don't. You're sending e-mails to arbitrary receivers. DKIM has no mechanism to tell you if that receiver supports any algorithm.
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