Join us live for State of the Open Home 2026! 🎥

Next week on Wednesday, April 8, we go live on the Open Home Foundation YouTube channel for our annual event.

Tune in to celebrate our community, share successes, and get excited about what’s next as we continue to build in the open. 👇

#HomeAssistant #ESPHome #MusicAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL1to3Lm4

State of the Open Home 2026

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New Blog Post: Monitoring Device Battery Levels in Home Assistant

I have a lot of battery-powered devices in my home automation environment. I wanted a way to monitor battery levels so I could attend to devices before they went offline.

https://www.crosenthal.com/chrome/2026/03/30/monitoring-device-battery-levels.html

#homeAssistant #homeAutomation

Monitoring Device Battery Levels in Home Assistant

I have a lot of battery-powered devices in my home automation environment. I wanted a way to monitor battery levels so I could attend to devices before they went offline.

Courtney Rosenthal
Gas consumption for 2026-03-29 #HomeAutomation #Gas #Energy
Indoor temperature & humidity across the house on 2026-03-29 #HomeAutomation #SmartHome
Thrilled to announce that as of just this minute I have zero (0) "temporary" breadboard home automation projects in everyday use.

#homeautomation

For people that are into home automation with home assistant and only use zigbee.

I recently learned that the new Ikea Kajplats lightbulbs can be connected through zigbee. People have gotten it to work with both ZHA and zigbee2mqtt.

If you were like me wanting to buy cheaper Ikea bulbs but the Trådfri ones were out of stock? You can still try out the new Kajplats ones 🙂.

#homeautomation #homeassistant #zigbee #ikea #smarthome #raspberrypi

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-kajplats-zigbee-mode/960714/8

Ikea Kajplats Zigbee mode

I haven’t had time to look into this further, but other people have:

Home Assistant Community
HomeAssistant folks. A have a script that sets the volume on my soundbar to a specific volume, then starts a radio station. It works as I expect when I run it manually, but if I run it from an automation the volume control bit doesn’t work and it blares out at whatever volume it was already set to. Any suggestions? #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation
Gas consumption over the last 7 days #HomeAutomation #Gas #Energy
Gas consumption for 2026-03-28 #HomeAutomation #Gas #Energy
Indoor temperature & humidity across the house on 2026-03-28 #HomeAutomation #SmartHome