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People are sharing practical Home Assistant setups and integrations, especially for wall/tablet displays and bringing Zigbee IR blasters into Home Assistant as native infrared entities. There’s also discussion about installing HACS on Home Assistant running in virtualization (Proxmox VM and Docker).

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17 September 2013
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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are focused on expanding device capabilities and improving UI/automation through specific integrations and add-on installs like HACS.
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Home Assistant setup Zigbee IR blasters HACS installation works with home assistant
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Home Assistant users are focused on expanding device capabilities and improving UI/automation through specific integrations and add-on installs like HACS.

People are sharing practical Home Assistant setups and integrations, especially for wall/tablet displays and bringing Zigbee IR blasters into Home Assistant as native infrared entities. There’s also discussion about installing HACS on Home Assistant running in virtualization (Proxmox VM and Docker).

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  • Zigbee IR blasters — Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities r/homeassistant

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Top 1 signals · Home Assistant users are focused

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Other Home Assistant activity — not part of the “Home Assistant users are focused” story

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Add-on mentioned HACS installation

What to Watch

  • Check r/homeassistant for follow-ups on HACS installation paths for Proxmox VM and Docker. WunderTech

What Changed

  • Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker) WunderTech
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Broader Home Assistant coverage · not part of the Home Assistant users are focused story
r/homeassistant · 1 article

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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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