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Home Assistant is seeing a wave of new integrations and user-built automation, from hardware add-ons and third-party cards to shortcut-based notifications. At the same time, larger tech discussion highlights Google’s Gemini testing figures and a broader narrative about smart-home innovation led by the community.

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17 September 2013

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Key Takeaway Expect Home Assistant to expand quickly through new device bridges, richer UI cards, and increasingly creative automation like Apple Shortcuts-driven notifications.
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Expect Home Assistant to expand quickly through new device bridges, richer UI cards, and increasingly creative automation like Apple Shortcuts-driven notifications.

Home Assistant is seeing a wave of new integrations and user-built automation, from hardware add-ons and third-party cards to shortcut-based notifications. At the same time, larger tech discussion highlights Google’s Gemini testing figures and a broader narrative about smart-home innovation led by the community.

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Top 2 signals · Expect Home Assistant
XDA-Developers · 8h ago
Home Assistant users are building smarter homes than Google and Amazon ever will
9to5Google · 1d ago
Google: 3.5M users have tested the Gemini for Home assistant, Speaker teased for next week

Briefing Findings · Expect Home Assistant

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notifications feature Home Assistant Notifications can run Apple Shortcuts
new hardware bridge A Home Assistant bridge supports the Costco OmniBreeze Wi‑Fi tower fan
new UI component WeatherWise is a new Home Assistant weather card for wall panels

What to Watch

  • Watch r/homeassistant for more integration announcements like device bridges (e.g., new fan support). r/homeassistant

What Changed

  • Blog Post: Home Assistant Notifications That Run Apple Shortcuts (Yes, Really) XDA Developers
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9to5Google · 1 article
XDA-Developers · 1 article

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xda-developers.com

Home Assistant slows down over time, but there's a nuclear option most people don't realize

The best thing for your smart home might be starting from scratch.

3d ago Jasmine Mannan
computerbase.de

Osram Smart+ Plugs: Matter-Update 1.3 bringt Energie-Messdaten auch für Home Assistant

Ledvance liefert ab sofort für alle Osram Smart+ Plugs ein Update auf Matter 1.3 mit zusätzlichen Funktionen fürs Energiemanagement aus.

4d ago Frank Hüber

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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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