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People are sharing new Home Assistant integrations and dashboards, plus hands-on community projects like a local 24/7 neighborhood radar and a solar-powered climate control setup. There’s also discussion around improving Home Assistant’s usability through custom UI and tools like HACS installation.

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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are rapidly expanding what their systems can do—from custom UI to full DIY automation—while also sharing practical setup guidance like HACS.
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custom dashboards DIY home automation setup and tooling works with home assistant
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Home Assistant users are rapidly expanding what their systems can do—from custom UI to full DIY automation—while also sharing practical setup guidance like HACS.

People are sharing new Home Assistant integrations and dashboards, plus hands-on community projects like a local 24/7 neighborhood radar and a solar-powered climate control setup. There’s also discussion around improving Home Assistant’s usability through custom UI and tools like HACS installation.

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r/homeassistant · 6h ago
Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners
WunderTech · 44d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)
r/homeassistant · 17h ago
FluxUI Home Assistant Dashboard | Unified YAML Design for Mobile & Tablet

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Dashboard focus FluxUI Home Assistant Dashboard uses a unified YAML design for mobile and tablet
Radar project A 24 GHz radar combined with Home Assistant powers a 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local)
Automation build A solar-powered climate control system uses Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners
Tooling topic WunderTech covers installing HACS on Home Assistant via a Proxmox VM and Docker setup

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant for more posts tagged around FluxUI dashboard releases and YAML design patterns. XDA Developers
  • Watch for additional community write-ups after HACS install guides like WunderTech’s Proxmox VM + Docker approach. WunderTech
  • Look for more DIY sensing builds similar to the 24 GHz radar detector threads for local-only deployments. XDA Developers

Recent signals

  • Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners XDA Developers
  • 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC XDA Developers
  • I made a visual Home Assistant floorplan entity editor XDA Developers
  • FluxUI Home Assistant Dashboard | Unified YAML Design for Mobile & Tablet XDA Developers
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r/homeassistant · 2 articles
WunderTech · 1 article

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xda-developers.com

I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back

I've almost retired Google entirely in my home.

12h ago Adam Conway
xda-developers.com

Home Assistant's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds

Create cards to your heart's content.

4d ago Rich Edmonds
xda-developers.com

I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing

And that's before you include the cool automations I can create with this setup

3d ago Ayush Pande

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r/homeassistant Community · 5 articles

Tracking: Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners / 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC

Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC
+3 more I made a visual Home Assistant floorplan entity editor FluxUI Home Assistant Dashboard | Unified YAML Design for Mobile & Tablet Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant

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Hacker News · u/Vibecoder_ · 

Show HN: Assist Debug Card for Home Assistant

Hi all, I'm playing round with Assist, testing different LLM's, tools, etc. What i was missing from HA is a card which shows the past conversations, including processing times and such.After a bit of experimenting i got …

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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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