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People are sharing practical, build-focused Home Assistant setups—especially custom dashboards and local voice control—plus asking about specific hardware integrations like Zigbee/Z-Wave wearable buttons. There’s also ongoing interest in installing and managing Home Assistant add-ons via HACS on virtualized/container environments.

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17 September 2013
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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are focusing on end-to-end local usability—tailoring dashboards, enabling offline voice, and extending via HACS—while exploring niche wearable button integrations.
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local voice control smart dashboard automation HACS on Proxmox/Docker works with home assistant
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Home Assistant users are focusing on end-to-end local usability—tailoring dashboards, enabling offline voice, and extending via HACS—while exploring niche wearable button integrations.

People are sharing practical, build-focused Home Assistant setups—especially custom dashboards and local voice control—plus asking about specific hardware integrations like Zigbee/Z-Wave wearable buttons. There’s also ongoing interest in installing and managing Home Assistant add-ons via HACS on virtualized/container environments.

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Speech-to-text approach Fully local, no AI voice control using only CPU for speech-to-text
Dashboard logic Rooms show different photos based on weather, time of day, and presence
Integration question Wearable Zigbee/Z-Wave button usage with Home Assistant is being discussed
Setup environment for HACS HACS installed on a Home Assistant Proxmox VM and Docker

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant for replies on wearable Zigbee/Z-Wave button integration experiences. XDA Developers
  • Look for more community posts detailing HACS installation patterns for Proxmox VMs and Docker setups. WunderTech
  • Watch r/homeassistant for further examples of fully local/offline voice workflows on CPU-only setups. XDA Developers

What Changed

  • Anyone using a wearable Zigbee/Z-Wave button with Home Assistant? XDA Developers
  • A short demo of my fully local, no AI, voice controlled Home Assistant, running on a Beelink mini PC using just CPU for speech-to-text. It’s pretty fast! XDA Developers
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Tracking: My Home assistant Dashboard. Rooms display different photos based on conditions like weather, tine if day and preasance. Health and Garden monitoring included. / Anyone using a wearable Zigbee/Z-Wave button with Home Assistant?

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Why use anything else?

Bare metal sounds like the best option for anything, really. You wouldn't run your home desktop PC through emulation, would you? The same goes for the smart home with Home Assistant. There's an OS package that runs on just about any hardware that meets the system requirements, and you'll have no trouble hooking up all your smart home devices and other integrations. It all just works. There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI. For many users of the platform, this

Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
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