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People are focused on expanding Home Assistant’s capabilities with home-infra integrations, specifically using Zigbee IR blasters as native infrared entities. There’s also attention on setting up Home Assistant with HACS on virtualization platforms like Proxmox using either a VM or Docker.

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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups by adding native Zigbee IR control and by installing HACS via Proxmox VM or Docker.
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Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups by adding native Zigbee IR control and by installing HACS via Proxmox VM or Docker.

People are focused on expanding Home Assistant’s capabilities with home-infra integrations, specifically using Zigbee IR blasters as native infrared entities. There’s also attention on setting up Home Assistant with HACS on virtualization platforms like Proxmox using either a VM or Docker.

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Top 2 signals · Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups
r/homeassistant · 6h ago
Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities
WunderTech · 34d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)

Broader Home Assistant coverage

Other Home Assistant activity — not part of the “Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups” story
TrueNAS Forum · 1d ago
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Briefing Findings · Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups

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integration type Zigbee IR blasters
Home Assistant feature native infrared entities
addon HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)
deployment options Proxmox VM and Docker

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant for updates and implementation threads on Zigbee IR blasters as native entities. XDA Developers
  • Look for step-by-step HACS install variations for Proxmox VM vs Docker setups on WunderTech. WunderTech

What Changed

  • Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities XDA Developers
  • Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker) WunderTech
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r/homeassistant · 1 article
WunderTech · 1 article
Broader Home Assistant coverage · not part of the Home Assistant users are upgrading their setups story
TrueNAS Forum · 1 article

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Making the move from physical to hypervisor.

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I gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible

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The new Maintenance dashboard is the Home Assistant feature I did not know I needed

This dashboard makes it easy to check the battery levels on my Home Assistant entities

12d ago Ayush Pande

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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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