Left: a Seeed EE02 in a custom frame, showing everything heard today as a specimen sheet. Right: an OpenPaper 7 showing the latest bird as a folio plate.

My cameras already had microphones, so I wondered whether I could use their audio to find out which birds visit the garden. It turns out you can, and it works really well!

The audio side

• BirdNET-Go runs as a Home Assistant App on my pi4 8GB. It's a Go port of BirdNET, the bird-call model from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and it runs fully locally. No audio leaves the house.
• Instead of a USB mic, it listens to the RTSP streams from my cameras, which are generic HiLook/Hikvision models blocked from the internet. In BirdNET-Go's audio settings you add each stream URL, for these cameras rtsp://user:pass@camera-ip:554/Streaming/Channels/101 (or 102 for the sub-stream), and it pulls the audio from each one. I'm using 2 cameras, (front yard and backyard).

The display side

I wanted something nicer than a list in a dashboard, so I wrote a widget for Tesserae, my self-hosted e-ink dashboard project. It reads BirdNET-Go's API and shows today's birds in a few ways:

• a field log with times and call counts
• a day chart of who called in which hour
• a "latest visitor" page
• a full-bleed plate of the last bird heard, with caption styles like the folio plate on the right, a museum label, cyanotype, postage stamp, woodblock print and cameo
• a cluster of everything heard today, printed like a page from an old field guide: the specimen sheet on the left, or a numbered plate with a key, a wreath, a field notebook with taped-in birds, or a museum specimen drawer

The pictures are public-domain plates by Gould, Audubon, Lear and others where one exists for the species. Optionally, fal.ai paints the missing birds in a style you pick, at about US$0.04 a bird; the ones in the photo are painted as watercolours after Audubon. Each bird is painted once and kept, and a page in Tesserae lets you repaint, restore or delete them. It works on colour, greyscale and black-and-white panels.

If you don't have BirdNET-Go yet, the widget runs a demo garden for your location, so you can see the layouts first.

• Tesserae: https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae
• Website: [https://tesserae.ink](tesserae.ink)
• Bird widget: https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae-widget-backyard-birds
• BirdNET-Go: https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

The specimen-sheet look is inspired by Fugleramme by Arne Giacomo, a dedicated BirdNET-Go bird frame for the Raspberry Pi with hand-cut 1800s illustrations. It's worth a look if you want a standalone frame.

Happy to answer questions about the camera audio setup. I'm sure there are better ways to tune it, and I'd love to hear what's worked for others.

Hey all!

After the amazing responses I received on the original KeyBridge post, I spent the last few months working on V2 based on everyone’s feedback.

For context, KeyBridge is a USB adapter board that lets you repurpose standard USB keyboards and macropads into home assistant controllers. Each keystroke can be mapped to your favourite automation or scene in HAOS.

The biggest changes this time are native ESPHome support and a more compact PCB. Moreover, this is completely open source (both hardware and firmware) just like the first version. New repo:

keybridge-esphome

For anyone who’d rather just have an assembled, plug-and-play board without having to source components or solder, the new board just passed EMC testing, and I’m preparing an initial manufacturing run of 500 units. Pre-orders are open now via the following link:

https://localdevices.net/products/keybridge

I made a discount code as a thank you to the community here, just use REDDIT at checkout.

Ships from the UK. Internationally, we primarily ship to the US on a DDP basis (tarrifs/duties handled for you). For other countries please read the full shipping policy on the website for more info.

Happy to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

Cheers

Hi, a few weeks back I shared how I’m trying to develop the max out of sound recognition for my sound sensor project. Here the link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/3JVZzuuPav

Now the question:

Would anyone use a sound password for any home automation.

Like: Whistling + Clapping + Coughing + Finger Snapping + Cough in the right order within 30s opens the gate 😅

And custom icons too.

But, build in matter/thread sounds really handy.

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on a project called NesPanel, a physical wall controller for Home Assistant.

It has a color display and a rotary encoder. You can turn the encoder to open a menu, press it to select an option, and turn it again to adjust the selected value.

I’m developing it under my hardware project, Hedgehog Electronics. The device has its own Home Assistant integration, where you can configure the controls and select which entities you want to control. The current prototype can control six entities.

It also includes temperature and humidity sensors and a light sensor for automatic backlight adjustment.

I’ve attached a video showing how it works.

I’m curious what other Home Assistant users think about this approach. Do you prefer physical controls like a rotary encoder, a touchscreen, or a combination of both?

What would you want to control from a wall-mounted device like this?

It's been a year since I started with Home Assistant and I'm finally happy with how things are.

HA on Proxmox, ~60 Zigbee/Shelly devices, UniFi cameras. Theme: Frosted Glass.

**My automations**

Lights

- Mailbox light on at sunset, off at sunrise

- Garage light on when the gate opens at night (5 min)

- Front door light on when a person is detected at night (5 min)

- Backyard light on when a person is detected at night (5 min)

- Hallway night lights at 20%, 50% on motion

- Outdoor lights off after 30 min if left on

Alerts (with buttons where useful)

- Washer / dryer finished

- Mailbox opened

- Garage open 15 min → "Close gate" button

- Garage opened without the motor

- AC on with a window open → "Turn off AC" button

- Heating on with a window open → "Turn off heating" button

- Rain coming + window open

- House empty with lights/AC on → "Turn everything off" button

- Low battery or sensor offline

- Hot water temperature too low/high

Other

- Doorbell rings → kitchen tablet pops up the camera with quick spoken replies

- Smart plugs on at sunset, off at sunrise

- Halloween: doorbell plays a ghost sound and the front lights flicker 👻

Happy to share YAML!

Hello,

I just want to share my custom lovelace card for my electrical Renault R5, because I found no one.

It use the MyRenault intégration, and use the officials images from the Renault website™.

Available through custom Hacs (opened an PR for the official repository).

https://github.com/Pouzor/renault-r5-lovelace

I thought some of you (especially in Europe) might be interested.

See ya 👋🏼

A little while ago I shared Maison, the dashboard my family uses every day. It has gone through a few more versions since. The goal hasn't moved: it should feel at home next to everything else on our iPhones, and show only what we actually check.

What's kept:

• The car still charges itself from solar surplus or off-peak, whichever is cheaper
• The energy chart, family calendars, bin days and per-zone heating are all still there
• The header sky still follows the real sun and weather

What's new:

• A Lights tab. All our lighting already lives in the Hue app, and I didn't want Home Assistant making decisions too. So Maison is just a remote: rooms by floor, a switch for each, and a sheet with brightness, scenes and single bulbs
• Status got its own tab. The header used to carry buttons, now it's just the sky and the words

What improved:

• On the phone it scrolls like a native app. The Home Assistant header is gone, the big title folds into a slim bar and the tab bar shrinks out of the way. This was the last part that still felt like a web page
• The Car page shows a big battery level instead of a car drawing, which never looked right. It fills green while charging
• The heating capsules share one temperature gradient. Before, the warm rooms faded to a muddy grey
• Cards with a single number keep it at the bottom, so the empty space looks on purpose

The code on GitHub is updated too: https://github.com/bnlqn/maison

I'm Davide, and I write DrivePulse on my own, from Rome. I drive a VW T-Roc and used We Connect Go with the official DataPlug every day, until Volkswagen shut the service down and my trips went with it. So I wrote my own app. It reads the car through a cheap ELM327 OBD2 adapter, like the ones from Veepeak or Vgate.

The iPhone update that just came out adds Home Assistant. Android is coming too, no date yet.

What it sends, to the webhook of your own Home Assistant

• trip_start when a trip opens, and trip_end once the trip is saved, with the last values of the trip: distance, 12 V voltage, consumption and the number of fault codes, plus a trip summary (duration, average and top speed).
• Live values while the adapter is connected, if you turn live on, at an interval you pick (5 seconds at the shortest).
• A test event from the Test send button.

No GPS position, no VIN, no addresses. Home Assistant already knows where your phone is.

Setup, no YAML

The DrivePulse integration installs from HACS as a custom repository. It gives you the webhook address to paste into the app, and creates one device per car, named as in the app, with fuel level, range, odometer, 12 V battery, coolant temperature, trouble codes (the codes themselves are in the codes attribute), last trip, trip in progress and adapter connected. It also fires drivepulse_trip_start and drivepulse_trip_end for automations. When the car doesn't give a value, the entity shows Unavailable instead of a wrong number. It needs Home Assistant 2024.12 or newer, and I've asked for it to be added to the HACS default list.

• The app only reads the car: no commands (no locks, no climate, no charging) and no doors or windows.
• On iPhone it works during a trip, also with the app in the background. With the app closed, nothing is sent.
• Plain http only goes to your home network, anything outside has to be https. By default the webhook only accepts your local network, so on mobile data the messages wait for your Wi-Fi, unless you use Tailscale or your HTTPS address (Nabu Casa or your own domain) and turn off Local network only in the integration's options.
• trip_start and trip_end are retried every 30 seconds for ten minutes, but only while the app is still running. If iOS suspends the app before the phone is back on your Wi-Fi, that trip_end is lost. Live values are never retried.
• It's off by default. After the free trial, automatic sending pauses until the app is unlocked; Test send keeps working.

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I took apart the new Sonoff SenseGuard Zigbee siren and tested it in Home Assistant with both Zigbee2MQTT and ZHA.

The device works quite well, but ZHA needs a custom quirk for now, since the official PR hasn't been merged yet. Once it's paired, you can control the light and siren independently from HA, which is handy for setting up different automations.

I documented everything I could in in my review, included some more teardown photos.

Sonoff SNZB-90P Zigbee Siren Review

Hey everyone,

I started with Home Assistant earlier this year and my dashboard slowly turned into a cyberpunk / Neo Tokyo project. I've cleaned up the cards and published them. They're free, MIT licensed, and each card has its own repo, so you can install and update them one by one through HACS.

**The cards**

- **Weather Neon Card**: a live WebGL sky with rain running down the glass, fog, frost, snow, lightning and the real moon phase

- **Neon Climate Card**: the airflow is drawn by an actual WebGL fluid solver

- **Storey Battery Card**: a 3D home battery stack with electric arcs between the modules

- **Nixie Clock Card**: six IN-14 tubes with glowing gas and an acrylic base

- **Neon Dual Gauge**: two concentric LED gauges with a plasma core that follows the value

- **Neon Dual Thermo**: two thermometers with refracting glass, liquid and bubbles, plus a 24 h graph

- **Linux Terminal Card**: a sci-fi CRT showing a Linux PC's CPU, RAM, temps, network and updates (with a ghost cat)

- **Neon Entities / Markdown / Header**: the everyday building blocks, all in the same style (the Markdown card runs Jinja templates client-side)

There are also a few **theme snippets** (card-mod), for example matrix code rain in the sidebar, and getting Settings and Developer tools to use your theme.

**Install**: every README has an "Open in HACS" button that adds it as a custom repository.

👉 Index of the collection: https://github.com/cerealkiller57540/Home-Assistant-Neon-Cards

This is a hobby project, so feedback, bug reports and ideas are very welcome, especially from people on low-end tablets or wall panels. And if you build a dashboard with them, I'd love to see it!

Finally bought a weather station (Ecowitt GW2000B) and have it feeding Home Assistant. I created a weather dashboard with current observations and 24-hr measurements. The wind direction is a template, so the icon changes based on the wind direction.

I created a custom table that pulls the National Weather Service forecast for my home and shows it by day for a rolling 7-day period (the built-in NWS card is ugly).

I also built a graph which shows the delta between the weather service's forecasted temp and my actual read temps, by hour. That's the "Accountability Graph" (I have always wanted to track weather forecast accuracy).

Nothing super revolutionary, but it's my dashboard, fed by my data. I think that's kind of neat!

Hi all,

I used to use an incandescent bulb in this floor lamp (1st pic).

I then switched to a standard LED, but the result is very disappointing (2nd pic taken under the exact same dark conditions).

The last picture shows the comparison. The incandescent is 40W and the LED (also Osram) is 9W, which according to the general tables should be powerful enough to mimic the original.

Are there bulbs that reproduce this kind of light effect, or are all LED bulbs the same (there's no hope of recreating the same effect)?

Many thanks!

I had issues adding Ikea MYGGBETT sensors to my home assistant setup, so I let Claude create this app so I can do it directly from the browser (no phone needed).
You can find the code here:
https://github.com/jandebleser/ha-matter-pair

I couldn't find anything online so I designed one.

Now sharing with you all if you have the same tab.

Fully concealed mounting, inbuilt charging, functioning buttons.

https://makerworld.com/models/3431782?appSharePlatform=copy

Just got a few Tapo s505 Matter over Wi-Fi light switches to play with.

I wired up the first switch, found it through the HA Matter integration via the mobile app. Boom. It works.

No Tapo (Tp-link) app, no logins, no nothing.

Is it really that simple?

Side note:

Is it still pinging TP-Link? How would I know? Should I care?

The title pretty much says it all. I’m still pretty new to the “Home Assistant scene” and would like to create a small dashboard using Home Assistant that lets me view and control some basic functions, like the weather and other smart home devices. I don’t need a high-end tablet, but it should be able to handle the usual workload so that I’ll still be able to use it in a few years. Size and price are much more important. Something around 10 inches (or larger) and 200 USD (used)

I've been with Hubitat for over 6 years and am pretty happy with it. I find very few issues of missed commands (most of the missed commands is due to some very old 300 series Z-Wave.

I've been playing with HA for a while but don't yet have enough time and devices to have any indication of long term reliability (or maybe stability is a better word).

I realize the "OS" is largely different so that is (mostly) known to me. I'm concerned about the number (hopefully small) of not doings it should or doing things it shouldn't.

Any experience would be appreciated.

Thansk

John

I've got a system functioning ok to help equalize a bilevel home with a 4-5 F gradient but run into an issue where at schedule transitions the ecobee native schedule fallback takes over, our safeties catch it and stop it but we're trying to prevent that altogether, and stumbled upon renewal in Ecobee but before I cook that up, wanted to see what is known about renewal and expiration as I can't seem to find stuff online. Can I do infinite 20 minute renewal handing Ecobee control to HA to overlap schedule transitions, and thereby still permit Ecobee to take over if HA failed etc?

Running Home Assistant Green totally updated.

Just don't want to waste the time cooking it and testing it if someone has already done or attempted the same...

Hello! I recently have gotten far enough along on this to share and hopefully receive some feedback; Multiple models of camera are supported and our add-on still keeps the local lights feature of the official AiDot Home Assistant integration.

You can find my project on GitHub: https://github.com/cbrightly/hass-aidot-cameras

I hope it is of use to some other users and would be thankful for any comments if you happen to try it out.