Jimmy Hawkins

I’m liking the updated @home-assistant.io Areas card. Currently doing some side by side testing with my current lighting group cards. Can fit a lot of info in little space o the Areas card.

Google is raising the price of Nest Aware subscriptions again The price increases go into effect starting in mid-August.

Google is raising the price of Nest Aware subscriptions again

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Good lord it’s ugly. Then again, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an attractive bulb camera…

Once again, why is blink still its own brand? Amazon doesn’t need two camera brands. Take blink’s great low-power silicon technology and put it in ring cameras!

Sometimes its the small #automations that can make you proud of your #smarthome

Here @automatedhouse.bsky.social has automated his office blind with @home-assistant.io

So that’s how step stools are born…

There's always a top #smarthomefail and this one from @automatedhouse.bsky.social was a real pickle 😆

Thanks to @philhawthorne.com and Rohan for having me on the @home-assistant.io podcast! #smarthome

Darn! 😂

When my phone is in bedtime mode Google Assistant was smart enough not to talk out loud to me when I tried to set an alarm, but Google Gemini is not. I look forward to the other unasked for "improvements" in my experience.

Look y'all. Lutron now publishes their end of life plans for their connected products! I love Lutron so much.
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Home Assistant has started fixing one of my top complaints for new users: the default dashboards. Looking forward to seeing how the new Areas dashboard evolves between experimental phase and final release.

Got my ECOVACS X8 Pro Omni updated to Matter and added to Apple Home, SmartThings and @home-assistant.io This is the first Matter device I’ve tested that has MORE features in Apple Home than Home Assistant. Apple lets you choose the rooms to clean and shows current room when cleaning. #smarthome

Such a miss…

Or an NVR, because everyone has one of those in their home.

Home assistant yellow ram and cpu usage chart showing drastic drop in resources

Can you tell when I did my @home-assistant.io Yellow CM4 to CM5 upgrade? Went from 2GB RAM to 8 GB RAM. #smarthome #homeassistant

Updating my HA Yellow from CM4 to CM5 did not go well 😅 Had to figure out rpiboot, running Terminal in Rosetta mode, wtf GIT cloning and Homebrew are, which took an hour. After that, things went smoothly until booting back up and ZHA tried to start up. Still left with all 50 Zigbee devices offline

Home Assistant officially Matters Home Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project

Congrats to the @home-assistant.io team! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03...

Yup. Even disabling everything under settings only seems temporary. The Echo Hub is the only Echo device with a screen with 0 ads and it’s priced accordingly.

You trying to get WiFi at the grocery store?

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.𝟯 🎉

✔️ Dashboard view headers
✔️ Tons of tile card improvements
✔️ Better map clustering
✔️ Assist now streams responses
✔️ Integrating SmartThings is smoother than ever!

Check out what’s new! 👇
🔗 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03...

#HomeAssistant

Setting up the G5?

Screen shot of the new Home Assistant header

As a strong proponent of using @home-assistant.io on “easy mode”, I had to put aside my no-YAML rule and tinker with the new 2025.3 header. #smarthome

Need a smarter way to enter your home? Our latest opportunity features a smart door lock and an accompanying mobile app from @kwikset.bsky.social! To learn more and apply, click here: bit.ly/4km2F4v

#newbetatest #testing #smarthome #smartdoorlock #keyless

$138-160 for a smart shade with a solar panel is a killer deal #smarthome

Bring on ALL the affordable Thread sensors. And hopefully Thread 1.4…

Any smart switch is just a cover for pressing a momentary button. So it would be about impossible to make one that actually moves enough to act like a real single pole switch. Kinda sucks you lose that nice tactile feel.

Really tired of feeling like things can’t get crazier and then the next day they do…

The independent platform that serves you This month, we’re looking at how the shifting whims of big tech and government put your smart home at risk—and why an independent platform is more crucial than ever.

I wrote about the companies behind the big smart home platforms making changes to please governments. They host your most private data, and you’re not their priority.