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I have some issues to iron out, but having #HomeAssistant add to my to-do list when a battery goes low, and include the battery type, is handy. Same happens when my servers have updates.

Now, if only my AuDHD ass could remember to look at my to-do list.

It's been over two years since we published a dedicated update on the development of the Android Companion app! 😨 With every release the app keeps getting better - today we're sharing an update on recent improvements and what's coming next! 👏🏻

Catch up on the incredible work 👇🏼

#SmartHome #Android #HomeAssistant
home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07

Home AssistantCompanion app for Android: It’s been a whileThe app will now have a dedicated developer. We recap the two years of development and the future of the app.

The #Aquara temperature sensor on my balkony is flaky. Every couple of weeks it just disappears for no apparent reason. So I spent my morning figuring out how to enable #Prometheus metrics in #HomeAssistant and wrote an alerting rule to get a notification on my phone via my local ntfy instance.

Yay, computers. 🙈

So the cooling fan assembly for the P4 GPU finally came in. It makes a huge difference.

From idling at about 45c to capping out at 90 and throttling with just a couple of Ollama requests, to idling at about 35c and maxing out at no more than 60.

The fan itself is PWM controlled, so plugged it into the motherboard. A little scripting set up a systemd service on Proxmox to talk to the LLM VM to get current GPU temp from nvidia-smi, then adjust the fan up and down by writing to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/pwm1.

Works a charm! Now I can actually get on with my local LLM play with #homeassistant voice.

Today I canceled my #NestAware subscription for my cameras. I have never been happy with how I could access my cameras' history feed, but the price was OK and the events were useful.
Now, #Google has raised the price significantly without any improvements. That was the last straw. I think 9to5Google explains it well in their article: 9to5google.com/2025/07/20/nest
I will probably invest in new cameras that can save directly to my NAS and work with #HomeAssistant locally. Any recommendations?

9to5Google · As Nest Cam falls behind, Google’s latest price hike is a tough pill to swallowBy Ben Schoon
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@seanhood @brad also, for “smart” heating, I highly recommend Honeywell Evohome. It’s not subscription based, and will operate entirely disconnected from the internet.

That said, if you do connect it to the internet, there’s a phone app and an API that allows #homeAssistant integration.

I use scenes a lot within #HomeAssistant and have done for years, because of this many were using the old deprecated mired colour temperatures rather than kelvin.
I asked copilot to do it within VS Code, it wrote me a little python script that iterated a copy of my scenes.yaml, doing the calculation and replacing the key/value for each that it found, saved me many hours doing it in the UI and I now have a lot less warnings in my log.

Slowly dipping my toe in with #HomeAssistant. So far I've got several new devices set up after scanning the home including Satan's hardware, the printer and even the router. Next step I believe is digging into "rooms" and/or zones so I can map out where everything is.

I have an OG Google Nest thermostat with “HeatLink” heating controls. Got it free when I signed up for the electricity supply when we moved in 10 years ago, works fine, the thermostat isn’t ugly, all good. Until later this year when Google will stop supporting it and I won’t be able to control it remotely or set schedules any more. I’ll be able to turn the heating on and off manually, that’s it.

So I’ve been looking at alternatives, there’s a few out there, Drayton Wiser stuff seems to be the best option for integrating with #HomeAssistant, a wall panel and wireless thermostat is around €200, and I can add on thermostatic radiator valves for zoned heating.

But then I realised that all the HeatLink thing I have now does is toggle the power to the boiler when it gets a command wirelessly… it’s a smart relay. Like a #Shelly smart relay. I can literally swap it out for a Shelly relay and use Home Assistant to turn the boiler on and off. I think I have one in a drawer somewhere, and if not they’re like €25.