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Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was excited too! But they mention it kills the battery as Google doesn't let the access the system API for it, so we'll see whether it stays enabled.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Following up. I found the mic/wakeword being active overnight prevented my Android Auto-Restart from occurring. Setup another automation to turn off wakeword overnight and turn it back on around my usual alarm time.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

I turned it off because it kept triggering when I (or someone else) was talking to my Home Assistant Voice Preview (which the blog says it won't do...). I also never really worked out good uses for it. My HAVP is in my kitchen/living room area, and is mostly used for playing music and kitchen related things (setting timers, unit conversions, etc).

If I ask home assistant on my phone to play music, it plays it on the HAVP speaker in my kitchen. I don't really have a need for timers or conversions outside of the kitchen where I already have the HAVP so didn't find any use for it on my phone.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I used their advice from the blog to make an automation that turns it on when I'm home, and off when I'm away.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I spend 90% of my time at home so that probably won't help my battery much 😅

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You probably have a charger at home, though.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha you got me, I do have a charger at home. I'm just not used to charging in the day, I normally charge overnight. But I guess I could charge more if needed.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, doubling the amount of charge cycles is not great for your battery. So even with a charger available one should consider whether it's worth it.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for commenting that. I only quickly read the blog. I've just set those automations up.