Energy monitoring in Home Assistant - Here's how to start today!

Link in the comments 👇

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📊 Poll: What hardware do you run Home Assistant on?

I currently use an HP Thin Client T630. Let me know your setup!

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Home Assistant 2026.5 arrives this Wednesday, and I've tested the beta! 🏠

Highlights:
🔧 New Maintenance Dashboard (battery overview)
⚡ New Shortcut Card — navigate, Assist, or perform actions
📱 Mobile notifications are now entities — send to groups!
🤖 Tile Card updates for media players, weather & robot mowers
🔔 New automation triggers for media players, timers & doorbells

Full breakdown: https://youtu.be/D0szmJpcfWE

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5 HA integrations I use every single day (and why)

1. Adaptive Lighting 💡
2. Waste Collection 🗑️
3. Plant Monitor 🌿
4. P1 Monitor ⚡️
5. Presence Simulation 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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🔥 Hot Take: Cloud-based smart homes are a ticking time bomb.

Agree?

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📸 Behind the scenes: what my HA dashboard looks like today...

How's yours?

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Question: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗔 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

I think mine was switching some lights on and off. Doesn't everybody start with that?

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Local heating automation in Home Assistant. No cloud. No subscription. No drama.
3 steps:

🌡️ Create Temperature & Schedule Helpers
⚙️ Create Heating Automations
🏠 Create Home & Away Automations
✅ Done!

Full tutorial 👇

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📊 Poll: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲: 👉 The constant 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗜. It makes creating 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 virtually impossible.

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⚡️ One automation that saves me time every single morning (in summer): My garden watering automation.
What automation saves you time every morning?

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