I wanted to set up presence detection in Home Assistant without exposing my installation to the internet, and without giving the companion app on my phone access to location data.

I use MikroTik network gear at home, so I added the Mikrotik integration to Home Assistant. It showed my phone as a MAC address, connected through Wifi, and I used that as device tracker. Everything seemed fine, but then the next afternoon. the device tracker still showed me as Away.

I then discovered that GrapheneOS (edit: Android rather, see below) uses a different random MAC address for each connection to a network, as default. Changed it to use a static random MAC for my home network, and now it works as intended.

All this to avoid running the Morning Coffee automation if I'm not even home.

#homeassistant #mikrotik #grapheneos

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mikrotik/

I wanted to set up presence detection in Home Assistant without exposing my installation to the internet, and without giving the companion app on my phone access to location data.

I use MikroTik network gear at home, so I added the Mikrotik integration to Home Assistant. It showed my phone as a MAC address, connected through Wifi, and I used that as device tracker. Everything seemed fine, but then the next afternoon. the device tracker still showed me as Away.

I then discovered that GrapheneOS (edit: Android rather, see below) uses a different random MAC address for each connection to a network, as default. Changed it to use a static random MAC for my home network, and now it works as intended.

All this to avoid running the Morning Coffee automation if I'm not even home.

#homeassistant #mikrotik #grapheneos

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mikrotik/

Family of 5, electricity bill…🥶

Induction, electric oven, a bit of home lab and a gaming pc.

We also run dishwasher and washing machine more than once a day… Kids…😂

At least my #Zigbee power meters in #HomeAssistant are actually quite accurate…🥹🤡

Been feeling a bit sluggish in the office recently. Thought about CO2 and so bought a cheapo (but reasonably well reviewed) module. Hooked it up to an ESP32 I had lying about and added it to #homeassistant. Calibrated it outside at 400ppm and then moved it into the office. 1300ppm. Ugh. OK, so I need to open a window every now and again.

Ich brauche eine #Elektriker*in in #Remscheid

Jemand, der an der Verteilerkasten darf! (Wichtig!)

ToDos sind:
- Prüfung nach DGUV
- Anschluss/Verlegung einer Steckdose im Technikraum
- Wallbox zuhause abmontieren und im Betrieb anschließen
- neue Wallbox zuhause an neuen Standort verlegen
- Steuerung für Lastmanagement der TK-Anlage zusammenbauen und verlegen

Zusätzliche Kenntnisse im Bereich #homeassistant wären super.

Auf Rechnung.

#followerpower

Ich brauche eine #Elektriker*in in #Remscheid

Jemand, der an der Verteilerkasten darf! (Wichtig!)

ToDos sind:
- Prüfung nach DGUV
- Anschluss/Verlegung einer Steckdose im Technikraum
- Wallbox zuhause abmontieren und im Betrieb anschließen
- neue Wallbox zuhause an neuen Standort verlegen
- Steuerung für Lastmanagement der TK-Anlage zusammenbauen und verlegen

Zusätzliche Kenntnisse im Bereich #homeassistant wären super.

Auf Rechnung.

#followerpower

Zufällig jemensch einen Home Assistant Green über und möchte ihn loswerden?

#HomeAssistantGreen #HomeAssistant

Zufällig jemensch einen Home Assistant Green über und möchte ihn loswerden?

#HomeAssistantGreen #HomeAssistant

I got my hands on a (apparently bricked) uugear Vivid Unit board today. Rockchip RK3399 5 inch touchscreen. Have now managed to get the bare OS working again, except it's Debian Bullseye and there's no straightfoward upgrade path. Could be a nice #homeassistant control panel, but would be great to be able to update it. Board is a strange mix of Android and Linux stuff though.

@Trilogy3452 #HomeAssistant on the server, #ESPHome on the sensors.

After a few weeks of playing with this and not being plunged into darkness I’m soft launching my latest #HomeAssistant helper.

Wasp in a Box is an automation pattern for enclosed spaces (bathrooms) where a door and motion sensor are used along with some timers to work out occupancy even if there's no constant motion.

Experimental release is available if you like living dangerously.
https://github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA-Wasp-In-A-Box

The build is successful!

I finally finished* my TagTuner music jukebox and hooked it up to some speakers. It uses the ESPHome-based Home Assistant Voice PE as its brains and audio player, and when it scans NFC tags, it fetches corresponding media from my Music Assistant server.

I still have a couple bugs to work out, but this is definitely close enough to feel "ready".

I'm so happy to have a tool that will let us both (a) leverage my large home media server and (b) enjoy some of the benefits of physical media.

#physicalmedia #ESP32 #homeassistant #musicassistant #diy

After a few weeks of playing with this and not being plunged into darkness I’m soft launching my latest #HomeAssistant helper.

Wasp in a Box is an automation pattern for enclosed spaces (bathrooms) where a door and motion sensor are used along with some timers to work out occupancy even if there's no constant motion.

Experimental release is available if you like living dangerously.
https://github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA-Wasp-In-A-Box

I rarely say this but may be worth ensuring you have a good backup/rollback plan and checking raised issues on your important custom integrations before upgrading to #HomeAssistant 2026.2

A change to the way entity_id's are validated is breaking some custom integrations, resulting in missing entities. I fixed my integrations during the beta week but quite a few did not.

This search shows the issue though there may be more if people haven't included the log text.

https://github.com/search?q=%22homeassistant.exceptions.HomeAssistantError%3A+Invalid+entity+ID%3A%22&type=issues&p=1

#homeassistant users, what's the secret to getting new Matter devices to pair? Because it's a parade of "pairing failed" messages for me across several devices.

I have a ZBT-1 attached to my HA Green, OTBR running, and a bunch of other Matter devices that just appeared in HA that work.

Looking around, there is a bunch of very confusing stuff about IPv6 networking (this kind of nonsense is why HA remains a hobbyist platform) and not one paragraph of "here's the straightforward method to follow" advice, including in the official docs.

Halp!

#homeassistant users, what's the secret to getting new Matter devices to pair? Because it's a parade of "pairing failed" messages for me across several devices.

I have a ZBT-1 attached to my HA Green, OTBR running, and a bunch of other Matter devices that just appeared in HA that work.

Looking around, there is a bunch of very confusing stuff about IPv6 networking (this kind of nonsense is why HA remains a hobbyist platform) and not one paragraph of "here's the straightforward method to follow" advice, including in the official docs.

Halp!

I rarely say this but may be worth ensuring you have a good backup/rollback plan and checking raised issues on your important custom integrations before upgrading to #HomeAssistant 2026.2

A change to the way entity_id's are validated is breaking some custom integrations, resulting in missing entities. I fixed my integrations during the beta week but quite a few did not.

This search shows the issue though there may be more if people haven't included the log text.

https://github.com/search?q=%22homeassistant.exceptions.HomeAssistantError%3A+Invalid+entity+ID%3A%22&type=issues&p=1

Random tech bit of the evening:

I had stumbled across an esphome/433mhz bridge temple, so I'm replacing OpenMQTT gateway with it, since the later had some annoying issues getting stuck after.... actually idk the cause but this also lets me take something off of mqtt, and also means I don't need MQTT outside of the cluster.

Heck, now the only thing using MQTT is frigate. If they ever added a native Homeassistant API I could also drop MQTT.

I could consider dropping 433mhz entirely and switch all of the temp sensors to zigbee or wifi but right now this means I don't need to buy anything new, which is also a worthwhile goal.

Long term tho the plan is to drop as many unique coms protocols as possible. ZWave and 433Mhz are the two most easily dropped, followed maybe by Bluetooth. Ok probably not Bluetooth that has a few unique features that are worthwhile (BTLE trackers in bags/etc)

#HomeAutomation #EspHome #HomeAssistant