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People are sharing practical Home Assistant projects and integrations, ranging from dashboard UX feedback and offline TTS recommendations to custom automation using body recovery signals. There’s also growing ecosystem/infrastructure interest, including HACS setup guidance and enabling a domain forward from TrueNAS to Home Assistant.

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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are actively extending it with custom automations, usability-focused dashboards, and tooling like HACS—while expanding integrations from adjacent platforms.
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Home Assistant users are actively extending it with custom automations, usability-focused dashboards, and tooling like HACS—while expanding integrations from adjacent platforms.

People are sharing practical Home Assistant projects and integrations, ranging from dashboard UX feedback and offline TTS recommendations to custom automation using body recovery signals. There’s also growing ecosystem/infrastructure interest, including HACS setup guidance and enabling a domain forward from TrueNAS to Home Assistant.

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r/homeassistant · 5h ago
Best Offline TTS for Home Assistant
WunderTech · 47d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)

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App focus Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use
Content focus Best offline TTS for Home Assistant
Integration focus Install HACS on Home Assistant using Proxmox VM and Docker
Automation novelty Home Assistant triggered from body recovery signals instead of motion/presence

What to Watch

  • Check r/homeassistant for follow-up UX feedback threads on the wall-mounted family dashboard. XDA Developers
  • Follow the community’s offline TTS recommendations to compare setups for non-network voice output. XDA Developers
  • Watch for more HACS install guides and setup patterns across Proxmox VM and Docker setups. WunderTech

Recent signals

  • Best Offline TTS for Home Assistant XDA Developers
  • Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use – looking for honest UX feedback XDA Developers
  • I made Home Assistant react to my body's recovery signals instead of motion/presence XDA Developers
  • Domain Forward NPM on TrueNas Scale to Home Assistant XDA Developers
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r/homeassistant · 1 article
WunderTech · 1 article

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xda-developers.com

I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house

Forget replacing all of your old appliances.

23h ago Jasmine Mannan
xda-developers.com

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

Making IR great again!

2d 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.

3d 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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