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Recent Home Assistant chatter is centered on hands-on integrations and customization—ranging from using it with LineageOS to building dedicated physical dashboards. People are also sharing hardware/software projects for local sensing, plus guidance on installing HACS in virtualized/container setups.

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Key Takeaway Home Assistant is being used as a platform for highly customized, self-hosted hardware setups—from branded sensing to tailored dashboards and add-on installs.
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DIY integrations local automation sensing HACS and setup works with home assistant
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Home Assistant is being used as a platform for highly customized, self-hosted hardware setups—from branded sensing to tailored dashboards and add-on installs.

Recent Home Assistant chatter is centered on hands-on integrations and customization—ranging from using it with LineageOS to building dedicated physical dashboards. People are also sharing hardware/software projects for local sensing, plus guidance on installing HACS in virtualized/container setups.

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WunderTech · 45d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)
r/homeassistant · 6h ago
I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema

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Project type Using Home Assistant with LineageOS to salvage an Echo Show 5 (Gen 2)
Hardware input 24 GHz radar paired with Home Assistant as a 24/7 neighborhood radar detector
Display build Old digital signage touchscreen turned into a physical Home Assistant dashboard
Add-on ecosystem Guide for installing HACS on Home Assistant using Proxmox VM and Docker

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant for more Gen 2 Echo Show salvage and LineageOS + HA integration threads. XDA Developers
  • Watch for additional HACS installation walkthroughs targeting Proxmox VM and Docker setups. WunderTech
  • Look for more community builds using 24 GHz radar with Home Assistant for local-only sensing. XDA Developers

Recent signals

  • I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema XDA Developers
  • Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS XDA Developers
  • 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC XDA Developers
  • Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant XDA Developers
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r/homeassistant · 1 article
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.

1d 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.

5d 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

4d ago Ayush Pande

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r/homeassistant Community · 4 articles

Tracking: I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema / Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS

I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS
+2 more 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC 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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