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

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

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