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People are focusing on expanding Home Assistant beyond basic automation—integrating third-party services, connecting non-smart appliances, and customizing behavior to unusual data sources. At the same time, users are testing reliability and setup options like running offline and troubleshooting installation on Raspberry Pi 5.

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17 September 2013
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Key Takeaway Home Assistant customization and integration are accelerating, but platform setup—especially offline operation and Raspberry Pi 5 installs—still triggers real-world hurdles.
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Home Assistant customization and integration are accelerating, but platform setup—especially offline operation and Raspberry Pi 5 installs—still triggers real-world hurdles.

People are focusing on expanding Home Assistant beyond basic automation—integrating third-party services, connecting non-smart appliances, and customizing behavior to unusual data sources. At the same time, users are testing reliability and setup options like running offline and troubleshooting installation on Raspberry Pi 5.

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XDA-Developers · 3h ago
I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
r/homeassistant · 5h ago
Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection?

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Offline capability question Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection?
Hardware/version issue Home Assistant 17.3 installation fails on Raspberry Pi 5
Community add-ons via HACS HACS install covered for a Proxmox VM and Docker setup

What to Watch

  • Follow the r/homeassistant thread for install fixes/workarounds tied to Home Assistant 17.3 on Raspberry Pi 5. XDA Developers
  • Re-check guidance in the r/homeassistant discussion on whether “fully offline” setups are supported without internet. XDA Developers

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

Create cards to your heart's content.

6d ago Rich Edmonds
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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

5d ago Ayush Pande
xda-developers.com

Home Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything

Making IR great again!

24h ago Rich Edmonds
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.

2d ago Adam Conway

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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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