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If you plan to use a Midea with #HomeAssistant, don't bother pairing Matter. Your heat mode will be missing, and BOY HOWDY do the two get mad at each other. Instead, get Midea AC LAN from HACS. Then set up the unit with the Midea SmartHome app, and use that to set up MIdea AC LAN in HA. Then just uninstall that app and forget the account exists cause HA has the keys and talks to it directly.

Ah, this aircon is so much quieter! And it's reversing, ie - has a heat mode! Heat mode only works down to 41 degrees F outdoor temp. So, I got an automation in #HomeAssistant that triggers when the outdoor temp is within 2 degrees of that cutoff AND if it's heat mode, that will read what I had it set to, copy it to the electric resistive heater, and then shut off the heat pump window unit.
It's Oregon. It doesn't stay that cold for all that long.
The rest of the time, it does full auto!

Hello #homeassistant geeks (more specifically #esphome geeks). I'm facing something new: I need to control some appliances (4 motors and 1 light) with Home Assistant. I was povided with a couple of pricey RF 433mhz remotes that I really don't want to disassemble (so I cannot just solder some bodge wires to the keys pads and connect them to an #ESP8266 ). I need something that can receive, copy and re-send the signals mimiking the original remotes. I don't know anything about RF, don't own an SDR and don't know if the remotes use some kind of rolling code. I've seen there is some support on ESPHome for 433mhz transmitters (https://esphome.io/components/remote_transmitter.html) but it's unclear to me with what hardware.
Anyone can point me in the right direction?
ESPHomeRemote TransmitterInstructions for setting up configurations that send out pre-defined sequences of IR or RF signals
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It’s very simple device. You can set the temperature in #HomeAssistant or on the device with the wheel.

The temperature sensor is not exposed as sensor, so I had to create a helper in HA.

We will see how it’s going to operate during winter, but I have already ordered standalone temperature and humidity sensors for each room to make it more accurate.

I have some issues to iron out, but having #HomeAssistant add to my to-do list when a battery goes low, and include the battery type, is handy. Same happens when my servers have updates.

Now, if only my AuDHD ass could remember to look at my to-do list.

It's been over two years since we published a dedicated update on the development of the Android Companion app! 😨 With every release the app keeps getting better - today we're sharing an update on recent improvements and what's coming next! 👏🏻

Catch up on the incredible work 👇🏼

#SmartHome #Android #HomeAssistant
home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07

Home AssistantCompanion app for Android: It’s been a whileThe app will now have a dedicated developer. We recap the two years of development and the future of the app.

The #Aquara temperature sensor on my balkony is flaky. Every couple of weeks it just disappears for no apparent reason. So I spent my morning figuring out how to enable #Prometheus metrics in #HomeAssistant and wrote an alerting rule to get a notification on my phone via my local ntfy instance.

Yay, computers. 🙈

So the cooling fan assembly for the P4 GPU finally came in. It makes a huge difference.

From idling at about 45c to capping out at 90 and throttling with just a couple of Ollama requests, to idling at about 35c and maxing out at no more than 60.

The fan itself is PWM controlled, so plugged it into the motherboard. A little scripting set up a systemd service on Proxmox to talk to the LLM VM to get current GPU temp from nvidia-smi, then adjust the fan up and down by writing to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1.

Works a charm! Now I can actually get on with my local LLM play with #homeassistant voice.