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The Home Assistant community is focusing on practical integration, customization, and deployment questions—from making dashboards and automations for specific family needs to running without internet. There’s also interest in expanding the ecosystem via add-ons (HACS) and connecting Home Assistant with external services and infrastructure (e.g., NPM on TrueNAS).

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17 September 2013
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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are actively testing offline operation, tailoring interfaces/automations to personal signals, and improving setup workflows with tools like HACS.
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offline capability custom dashboards automation integrations setup and add-ons works with home assistant
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Home Assistant users are actively testing offline operation, tailoring interfaces/automations to personal signals, and improving setup workflows with tools like HACS.

The Home Assistant community is focusing on practical integration, customization, and deployment questions—from making dashboards and automations for specific family needs to running without internet. There’s also interest in expanding the ecosystem via add-ons (HACS) and connecting Home Assistant with external services and infrastructure (e.g., NPM on TrueNAS).

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r/homeassistant · 12h ago
Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use – looking for honest UX feedback
WunderTech · 46d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)

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integration request Sensereo joins works with Home Assistant
dashboard focus A wall-mounted dashboard for family use is seeking UX feedback
automation input Home Assistant reacting to recovery signals instead of motion/presence
connectivity question Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection?
deployment topic Installing HACS on Home Assistant via Proxmox VM and Docker

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant threads for answers and best practices on fully offline Home Assistant setups. XDA Developers
  • Watch r/homeassistant for more UX feedback and iteration on wall-mounted family dashboards. XDA Developers
  • Look for follow-up posts on HACS install workflows using Proxmox VM and Docker. WunderTech

Recent signals

  • Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use – looking for honest UX feedback XDA Developers
  • Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection? 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.

18h 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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r/homeassistant Community · 4 articles

Tracking: Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use – looking for honest UX feedback / Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection?

Wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard for family use – looking for honest UX feedback Can Home Assistant run fully offline without an internet connection?
+2 more I made Home Assistant react to my body's recovery signals instead of motion/presence 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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Common questions on Home Assistant, surfaced from across the indexed web.

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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