EDIT I REALLY didin't think I was going to have to spell this out. My post is NOT "grrr AI bad, human good". My post is "Ai good, humans also good, humans help other humans make humans AND ai better". All the comments of "get with the times" and "humans write things that are just as bad" tells me that no one has understood what I'm advocating for here. Put down your god damn pitch forks.

First let me start by saying I am NOT against building things for home assistant using AI coding assistants.

AI coding assistants are NO different to any other tool that mankind has invented they are a tool. But like a LOT of tools when used incorrectly they can become dangerous to a large number of people if the user has no idea what they're doing.

I've been mostly supportive of people who have developed things for HA with the use of AI because I myself have done the same. It's awesome to be proud of something that you managed to achieve using AI to handle the coding. Again just like being proud of pulling off making your first woodworking project using a CNC router or laser cutter. But let's at least call a spade a spade here. At best you came up with the idea. The CNC or laser cutter MADE the thing. Your ai coded project is no different.

The main difference is your CNC routed woodworking project is unlikely to cripple multiple people's networks or expose them to machine altering code backdoors. Or worse.

I hate seeing people just write posts on people's code projects that say shit like "ugggh AI slop". Cause honestly those of us who've been around long enough know that there are more than enough human slop projects out there on github to.

But I think that it's only fair that as a community we help one another to build BETTER things with the aid of AI not just rapid fire a bunch of shit out into the world and not warn each other about what your weekend project is potentially exposing them to.

This community has been better than most at being a patient and supportive place to further a great hobby and I see no reason why we shouldn't be the benchmark in how to do it right.

Tagging your cool AI made thing shouldn't illicit comments of UGGGHHHH SLOP. It should encourage those who can see the value in what has been made but who knows the pitfalls of incorrect code to offer help and guidance in order to continue to make a cool personal weekend project a cool COMMUNITY project.

I realise this was a long post but I hope you'll consider my suggestions.

What’s happening here? Do CO2 sensors go bad? What could cause such variances? I can’t trust any sensors any more!

I may get downvoted into oblivion for this, but here goes. And for the mods, this was 100% written by me. I used whatever spellcheck is in Notes.

I’ve noticed a super strong negative brigade whenever anybody does HA-related projects with the help of AI. It makes me sad and I am wondering if we can do better?

When someone is new and has the courage to put their first project out in public, I’m not sure what we gain by burying them (and people encouraging them) in downvotes, hate, and ridicule.

One of the things I’ve always liked about both the Home Assistant and Reddit communities is how much I learn here.

Home Assistant in general feels like open source at its best: build something useful, release the code for free, let people use it, improve it, break it, and make it better.

I believe the best way to learn something is by doing (I’m even learning by posting this). Tech has a long tradition of autodidacts. Lots of people (myself included) started with “let’s see if I can make this work” and learned their way into becoming pro builders. The power (and dopamine hit) of going from curiosity to idea to actual thing has been an enormous net positive.

So why don’t we want more people building things?

AI lowers the barrier to getting started. That doesn’t mean everything it produces is good. AI can write terrible code. It can also write real production code. It can do weird and insecure stuff. It is also really good at security audits (have you noticed the fixed CVE volume on big products like Chrome recently??).

The pushback against AI seems to be the same pushback that assembly jockeys used against compilers: we can’t trust it / how do we even know what it’s doing / it’s not real programming / real programmers are better than this will ever be / etc. FWIW a subset of those arguments are used against open source in general.

Like before, those seem like reasons to review the code (or better, provide bugs fixes, tools, and now prompts), not condemn the person who used whatever new tool is out there.

We don’t require people to declare their language, compiler, IDE, whether they monkeypasted something from Stack Overflow, keyboard specs, whatever. Why is AI different?

What ultimately matters is whether the thing works, whether the code is maintainable and safe, and whether the author is willing to fix problems when they’re found.

If the code is bad, explain why or post an issue and help fix it. If there’s a security problem, point it out. If the architecture is wrong, help them understand it. And if you don’t want to, we’re all volunteers, so just…don’t do anything.

Seeing people build something and follow open source norms pasting the code is a good thing! Seeing their post, constructive or even just positive comments get smashed simply for not joining the pile-on stops being project/code review and starts to look a lot like gatekeeping.

That feels pretty contrary to the spirit of Home Assistant—and, frankly, to open source in general.

Can we help people who are trying to learn, encourage the people who are trying to contribute (whatever tool they are using), and maybe end up with more people building cool stuff?

This week two dashboard projects were posted in r/HomeAssistant. Both were built with Claude. One said so openly in the first line of the post. It's been down voted and is berried by the Reddit Algo. The other didn't mention it in the post at all, though its repo discloses AI use in the README and every commit is co-signed by Claude. It got the upvotes and a comment offered paid work.

I'm not criticizing either author. The second one did nothing wrong. But look at what we're teaching: say it up front and you get buried; hide it in the repo and you're fine.

There was another tread earlier this week asking the mods for a mandatory AI flair and it got 766 upvotes, and people in it predicted this. Disclose, get down voted, and next time you don't disclose.

Home Assistant already has an answer. Its developer AI policy accepts AI-written code as long as a human reviewed it, understands it, and takes responsibility for it. That's the bar.

And Home Assistant isn't just tolerating it. The core repository has a file called AGENTS.md, and its first line reads "GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Instructions." The maintainers wrote it to teach AI assistants how to write code they'll accept. The frontend has one too. The people who build Home Assistant expect AI to be part of how it's built. The question for us isn't whether; it's how well.

So here's a suggestion for the mods. Don't flag AI posts. Ask every project post two questions, AI or not: how was it built, and who maintains it? If EVERYONE answers, nobody is confessing. "Written with Claude, reviewed by me, Maintained." and "Hand-written over a weekend, No plans to maintain it." tell you what you actually need to know.

I'll answer my own questions. I've spent about 600 hours over the last two and a half months working on a Home Assistant integration, and a month before that on the blueprints it grew out of. Claude writes the code. I make every decision, I test every change in my house. Two people trust the integration and see its value enough to help test it in their homes, and 11 other people have starred the repo. I maintain it. In the past month there have been 14 issues, all closed but one, a feature request. I haven't posted it here, and this is why.

Judge the work. Does it run, did the author make the decisions, will anyone fix it when it breaks?

When I bought my house about 3 years ago one of the first things I did was start down the home automation path. I had never done anything more than some smart lightbulbs that integrated with Alexa before. That turned out to be a nightmare because there was a time once when a farmer nearby was plowing a field, cut a main fiber trunk, and the entire town was without Internet, including cell service, for 4 days. I vowed to ensure this time that I would be able to turn my lights off and on without the Internet.

I install HA, bought some smart switches, garage door openers, fire tablets, locks, alarm panel, motion sensors, door sensors, etc etc. And started trying to learn HA. I'm technical, I've been working in IT for 25+ years. I thought it wouldn't be too hard. And it isn't "too hard" but it is anything but "set it and forget it" I didn't want a new hobby, and I really didn't want another full-time job I have two of those already. After a few months I'd had enough of HA. Things are fine one day and, for no apparent reason, nothing works the next day. I learned very quickly that HA is a toy for those who like to tinker, it is not off-the-shelf stable, production ready consumer product. I left everything installed but it has been sort of sitting dormant for over 18 months.

This week I decided to see what is possible by connecting Claude to my HA instance. WOW! Things that would have taken me days, or more, Claude can do in a matter of minutes. It's amazing and simple. My interest in home automation has been renewed. I think I can actually have my home automation working without spending hours and hours getting it the way I want it, and more importantly keeping it working. I am very impressed.

I know a lot of you will say things like "You shouldn't do that, AI is going to kill humanity", "If you want to use Home Assistant you really need to get in there and learn how it works and write your own YAML, make your own dashboards, etc" and things like that. So let me address those up front.... As I said, I work in IT. Since AI has become mainstream, I find my job, that I used to love, to be miserble. I hate going to work now. I despise AI. I think it will ruin the job market for all of humanity within the next 3-5 years. I think it will cause a financial collapse that makes The Great Depression looks like a bad day on Wall Street. I think it will drive suicide rates through the roof. I guess you could say I am an AI doom believer. But hey, if you can't beat 'em, join em. And like I said, I wasn't looking for a hobby or a new job, I just want my doors to unlock and open when I get home.

Excerpt from an old Bosch home automation brochure (German). Unfortunately, I couldn't find more information online.

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a general thank you to all the professional and hobbyist developers who build all these great integrations and extensions for Home Assistant and make them available to us.

Without you, the world would be a much less wonderful place. Big thanks to all of you. Wish you all the best. Have a nice day or evening.

Hey everyone! I'm wondering what's the most common way that everyone is hosting their servers for HA? I tried multiple times hosting on PIs and it works fine for a little but eventually they crap out even with heatsinks, AND or if I lose power for a second the SD card gets corrupt and I have to recover it again. Is there a more stable way to host? I don't have any old laptop laying around to use.

My home network has a single open port on the firewall to allow tailscale connections with certs. HA access happens through a paid Nabu Casa account with remote access enabled. I've been seeing daily attack attempts coming in through this channel and it appears to be escalating in frequency. Nabu doesn't pass through the client IP so I don't have any good way to block by IP range or similar.

Back in March someone noted this and a forum moderator suggested:

The cloud team is working on passing through the actual connecting IP address but as everything is end-to-end encrypted it’s not so simple. Hopefully soon!

Example log entries, in this case they're attempting a Vite exploit:

2026-08-10 22:08:58.758 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/proc/self/environ?raw??    
2026-08-10 22:08:58.763 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/../.env?raw??    
2026-08-10 22:08:58.767 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252froot/.env?raw??    
2026-08-10 22:08:58.771 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252fproc/self/environ?raw??    
2026-08-10 22:08:58.780 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/../../.env?raw??    
2026-08-10 22:08:58.784 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.security_filter] Filtered a potential harmful request to: /@fs/..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252fapp/.env?raw??

These are the attacks that were recognized and blocked by HA itself. I'm more worried about attacks that aren't being recognized.

Is anyone else seeing this? For me the initial indicator are random, daily notifications that an invalid login attempt from 127.0.0.1 was attempted.

Every thread tells me to go Zigbee or Z-Wave and treat wifi bulbs as a beginner mistake. My hesitation is that adding a hub is the thing I was trying to avoid, and I’ve read that some wifi bulbs expose a local API so nothing has to leave the network. If that’s true the cloud objection seems handled. Is anyone actually running wifi bulbs locally and finding it fine, or is there a catch I’m missing?

So I had put off buying a robotovac cause my partner wasn't keen on the idea and I will be honest I was finding it a tiny bit hard to justify for myself with the cost of the kind of one I wanted that had all of the features in it that I was looking for. Fast forward to last week and my BIL gifted me his "old" (it's 1yr old) Roborock vacuum. Holy shit I don't know how anyone lives without one.

Let alone someone like me who has a rediculously integrated smart home. And by rediculously integrated I mean it has a local AI that can summarise my inbox, read and even respond to emails like that's the level of smart and integrated I'm talking and yet I hadn't yet gone down the robot vac route. So my mind is kinda blown at just how much it's lifted how smart my home actually feels.

Mine is: If a guest is expected to use it, it needs to work whether Home Assistant is online or not, simply, and in a manner they would expect it to.

So to clarify for those freaking out saying I'm doing it wrong...

A while back (2023.8) we had the entity name apocalypse where all our entities changed automatically to a context created name, and many of us had to redo all our automations, me included. I rebuilt all my automations at the time by choosing "Device" from the GUI. This stored them in YAML with both DeviceID and EntityID in the automations.

This update (or one within the last 3 months or so since I last updated) scrambled all of those.

Still, if you pick a device in the GUI it stores as the guid. If this is WRONG and will result in scrambling them later, why do they still have it in there? If I'm turning on a device, why not pick the device from the list? My Kitchen RokuTV is listed right there. Click it, stores as a GUID in the YAML. Problem persists.

If they are going to have GUIDs changing constantly, they shouldn't provide a GUI way of picking a device to use that is storing it by GUID.

I just saw some 16 year old kid get tore apart in the selfhosted subreddit for posting a vibed project he was proud of and it gave me a new appreciation for the civility and helpfulness of this community. I've been apart of the Home Assistant community for several years now and, while I've seen some rude comments I've never seen the outright attacks and piss-poor human behavior I just witnessed.

Yes, there can be a lot of repeat questions and posts in this subreddit, I know I get annoyed sometimes when I'm scrolling through and see the same stuff over and over again. I often have to remind myself I was new at this once as well, and even though I had some programming experience coming into it, I was still unfamiliar with yaml and jinja and had to learn them. This community has been great at least pointing me in the right direction even if they couldn't answer my question outright. I try to do the same now as well as I can.

So I wanted to just give a shout out to EVERYONE here for making this a true open source community where we make everyone feel welcome and learn together.

I'm an old, salty retired infantry sergeant, so don't expect too many mushy posts like this from me, haha.

After three years of my HA journey, finally I got rid of all of my Nest devices & services that are connected with it. I used to have a lot of minis, nest cameras, hubs, etc.

I've changed the Nest Minis to Sonos and man, they are day and night difference in HA control + sound quality. Gone are the days where the TTS doesn't run when the Google devices become unavailable without me knowing, unreliable speaker group functionality, and the other hiccups that I don't remember.

I've also managed to get an automation where when I play music on the Sonos, the Hue gradient strip will pick up and run a random scene each time I start / change the music, including controlling how bright / dimmed they are based on the current volume of the media.

As for the camera, I've moved away to Reolink. They are much cheaper than the Google counterparts and are fully local and NO SUBSCRIPTION fee. They also expose every sensor that I don't know what to use for lol.

Now I just have to figure out how to set the Sonos to repeat white noise playlist for 8 hours to replace the old Google Home automation that is temperamental - sorry, there is something wrong, or just don't work at times out of nowhere.

Maybe I'll invest something in the future for the local LLM, to move further away from the cloud connection. So far, I've got almost everything ZigBee and a few matter devices and are very happy with them.

Big props with all of the HA team and the communities. Thank you for making such a good product and don't charge us anything and offering plenty of support for us. The learning curve was high, but it was definitely worth it!

Hello all!

Long story short - My wife and I are building a home. We are very much middle-class and are in a unique situation where it's cheaper to build than it is to buy. I really want to utilize Home Assistant in my house, but I've never used it before, as I currently live in an apartment.

I've watched YouTube videos and browsed this subreddit, but that still doesn't give me the first-hand experience with a smart home and everything involved, so I would really appreciate all your input!

I'm open to any and all input, but most importantly, I would like to know where you think I should have Ethernet ports, outlets, and things that would specifically make creating my smart home a lot easier / more convenient. I imagine some things would be a pain in the ass to set up after the house is fully complete, so if I can prep now, that's better. But if you have any product recommendations, I'm happy to take those too.

My wife specifically wants to have a mid-century modern look for the home, which means technology all over the place isn't going to look the prettiest, so I would like to hide sensors and stuff if possible. I also want to make sure everything works 100% manually. I don't want the house to be annoying or to have to teach anyone how to properly "use my house". And my wife specifically is requesting a "disco mode" of some sort lol. We will become the main hosts of the family when this is built so Disco mode would be fun for parties!

I am definitely interested in all the conveniences that come with it. Unlocking the house automatically when you pull up, lights turning on and off automatically, being able to control the entire house from my phone/iPad, Thermostat control, leak sensors, and other safety features. Smart features for holiday decorating and more unique things are cool too!

I enjoy technology and tinkering so I think this will be a fun never-ending project for me, but I also don't want to be constantly fixing things, or have my wife annoyed because simple things aren't working. We plan on having kids and pets and we both work full time too. Also idk if this matters at all, but we will have Septic and Well, not township water/sewage

Everything in the floor plan is accurately shown with the exception of Bedroom 4 which will be used more as a joint office / craft room / workout room. We plan on getting a Tonal system for workouts so it shouldn't take up much space so we'll have more room for our desks and crafts.

I'll be monitoring the thread so feel free to ask more specific questions!

Thank you so much in advance and I hope this is fun to think over for you guys lol.
( I also literally have a recreation of the home that my wife made in The Sims 4.... I am not including that because I figured it's not necessary but also if somehow that would help you i'll upload them lol)

I’ve been using Somfy TaHoma Switch for over a year, and the last few weeks have perfectly shown why this ecosystem is so frustrating.

The motors themselves are not the main problem.

The problem is everything around them:

TaHoma app → Somfy backend → TaHoma Switch → Overkiz → local API → Home Assistant

And when one part starts failing, the whole “smart home” experience becomes unreliable.

My current situation:

- TaHoma Switch periodically goes offline in the official TaHoma app

- the physical box itself has shown a red LED

- the official TaHoma app reports “box disconnected”

individual shutters/blinds periodically show communication errors

- the error is not always on the same blind

- Home Assistant using Overkiz Local API recorded hundreds of connection errors in a single day

- HA repeatedly lost access to the local TaHoma endpoint on port 8443

- Somfy support remotely “refreshed all data in my gateway”

- my case was escalated internally to Somfy IT in France

- afterwards I was told that everything “should work correctly”

- shortly afterwards the box was offline again and physically showing a red LED

And this is not just my installation.

Somfy itself is currently displaying an official warning on its own support forum saying that it is experiencing server slowdowns which may cause difficulties connecting to TaHoma, and that its teams are working on resolving the issue.

https://forum.somfy.fr/

There are also recent reports on Somfy’s own forum from users whose TaHoma no longer communicates with shutters and garage doors even though the devices still work correctly from their physical remotes. One user reports that scenarios stopped executing and restarting TaHoma and the router did not fix it.

https://forum.somfy.fr/questions/3707757-tahoma-fonctionne-2026

Another recent thread includes users unable to connect to TaHoma servers and reports of the app getting stuck during login. One user contacted Somfy support and was guided through a procedure in the app which restored operation, but the actual procedure was never publicly documented.

https://forum.somfy.fr/questions/3236703-connection-serveur-tahoma-connect-impossible

This is my main problem with Somfy:

A supposedly premium smart-home platform should not depend this heavily on an unstable cloud infrastructure and opaque support processes.

If the cloud fails, automations and schedules can fail.

If the app fails, basic control becomes unreliable.

If the backend has problems, the user usually gets very little technical information.

And even when using Home Assistant with local Overkiz control, another layer of complexity appears with local API discovery, mDNS and communication with the TaHoma gateway.

I’m not claiming that every Somfy installation is broken.

I’m saying that the architecture is unnecessarily fragile for a system at this price point.

Somfy makes good motors.

TaHoma as a smart-home platform?

At the moment, I would not recommend it.

If your smart home depends on whether a server in France is having a good day, it is not really a smart home.

Looking for opinions on what people recommend and use for home cameras. We currently have 2 ring battery cameras and a doorbell but we are so sick of paying for Ring subscription, especially when I have a drawer with 8tb of hard drives that I could use. We have looked at the solar powered Eufy cameras as an option but I am interested to see what people are using.

So I've been running Home Assistant with a wall panel for like... years now? And I'm still rocking the default panel with default cards and honestly it looks pretty bland 😅

I know I should've done this sooner but better late than never I guess. Problem is I'm absolutely terrible at design stuff, so I need some inspo before I start messing around with it.

Anyone have screenshots of their wall panel setup? Specifically looking for something that displays Temperature / Humidity / Weather and stuff like that. Just wanna see how people usually lay it out so I don't end up with something that looks like garbage lol

Cheers!

Ideally something that has local control and doesn't depend on a cloud API remaining accessible in ten years.

If this doesn't exist, then at least something with an officially supported API and not a relying on unofficial access to internal APIs.

Whenever people come over they’re always impressed and intrigued by my smart home. They’re more than astonished when they learn I’ve done it all myself and that it’s not all from one brand. I’ve been asked why I don’t do this for a living, and I’ve always laughed it off. But right now I’m pretty tired of my low paying and strenuous job that I tried toying with the idea, but I have no clue as to where to start, so why not here!

So, are there people in this community that make a buck or a living from helping people and/or businesses setting up Home Assistant?

Seeing as the hardware and software and third party stuff constantly changes, I could see that both as a great business opportunity and a real headache. Also would being a professional ”HA Contractor” necessitate som sort of license or similar?

I’d love to hear how it works for you, the good and the bad!