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While looking for new hardware for our home server (a 19'' mini rack server is very tempting...), I just came across project #minirack

10" rack server builds using a mix of off-the-shelf commercial and #diy #3dprinted mounts, panels, frontplates etc.

Looks interesting (and the mini racks are also rather cute).
Maybe interesting to some of you.

github.com/geerlingguy/mini-ra
mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com/

Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. - geerlingguy/mini-rack
GitHubGitHub - geerlingguy/mini-rack: Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. - geerlingguy/mini-rack

We're Matter certified!! 🎉

We've been ahead of the game with Matter implementation, and we're excited to announce both Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server are officially certified by the CSA. 😌

What does this mean for you? Find out on our blog 👇🏼

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation
home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03

Home AssistantHome Assistant officially MattersHome Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project

Funny story about #homeautomation . I do a LOT of it. Lights, thermostats, even my swimming pool pump and heater. I’m good enough. Not great, but good enough. Of COURSE my #christmaslights are hooked up to #homeassistant. The outside lights come on at _sunset_ (which changes slightly each day) and they turn off at 11pm. I also have the outside lights turn on in the morning at 7:00am. I intended for them to run a little in the dark morning when a few people would be awake, and then turn off at 8:00am.

3 weeks ago, when I put up all the lights and created the automations and scenes, I forgot to write the “turn the outside off at 8am” scene. (I turn inside lights on at 7am too, but they stay on all day) I never got around to it, despite how much time I spent in front of my computer over the holidays.

So for this whole holiday season, at least 3 weeks, I have been remembering around 8am, and manually turning off the lights. It’s a single tap on the home assistant app. But I just never got around to fixing this one thing. 🤦🏻

The state of my Home Assistant in 2024

My #homeautomation journey started 4 yrs ago (2020) when I bought 1 Aqara #zigbee hub, 1 room temp. sensor and 1 smart socket (for controling the heating of the office). I started with Aqara app. with 1 automation: If office temp < 21 turn on the pump, if > 22 turn it off.

After some months I moved to Home Assistant (in 2022).

The state today (end of 2024) is somehow different:

  • Home Assistant system running in VirtualBox on an old i5 4GB RAM laptop
  • 24 zigbee devices
    • Sonoff Zigbee dongle (router for all zigbee devices)
    • Tuya 3 phase electricity meter (for measuring electricity consumption on all 3 mains)
    • 8 Tuya/Aqara/Elivco smart sockets (for monitoring the consumption of various individual devices like dishwasher, production of solar panels, controling central heating pump etc.)
    • 3 sonoff smart switches (for controlling bathroom exhaust fan, aquarium/terrarium lights and pumps, charging of tablet)
    • Aqara smoke detector
    • 3 Ikea movement sensors
    • Ikea air quality sensor (to improve our ventilation – window opening habits)
    • 2 Aqara door sensors
    • 1 Aqara temp/humidity sensor
    • 1 Aqara button
  • 11 BLE devices
    • Xiaomi Mi temperature/humidity sensors connected to ESP32 BLE proxy
    • all Xiaomi sensors flashed with custom firmware
  • 40 automations for (major functionalities):
    • Controlling bathroom exhaust fan and adopting humidity threshold to external humidity
    • Controlling office heating radiator (pump)
    • Unlocking front door via NFC stickers
    • Controlling and monitoring aqarium and terrarium lights/pump
    • Notifying if windows are opened too long
    • Front door ring bell notifications
    • Turning off TV and related devices at night
    • Monitoring solar panels output and export to grid, turning on various devices to minimize electricity export
    • Notifications in case of goind over max. ‘agreed’ grid power draw (>8,4kW)
    • Various notifications of 3D printer (too hot, finished)
  • Total: 1400 entities in #homeassistant
  • 1 main dashboard
  • ~40 other lovelace dashboards, for each room that has at least one device

That’s very brief description of my Home Assistant system at the end of 2024. I’m documenting the progress and the document is already 100 pages long.

Maybe it sounds a lot, but I feel I didn’t even scratched the surface.
Plz. send help 🙂

When I published this info on Fediverse, I found out there are people with far larger setups (200+ zigbee devices).

Good, it looks like I still have some self-control 🙂

Join the AHA (Anonymous Home Assistants 🙂 ) debate on Fediverse.

Tags: #homeassistant #zigbee #ble #selfhosting #wifi #esp32 #esphome #tuya #aqara

If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout (embedded pics) is off, here’s the link to the original blog post.

https://blog.rozman.info/the-state-of-my-home-assistant-in-2024/