MichaelMKKelly

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Devices I personally have home assistant experience with

This is a list of devices I personally use or have used, How I feel about them and if I would recomend them.

Device	Device Catagory	Protocol	Fully Local?	Activly Use?	Would recommend?	Use Case
Shelly EM	Energy Tracker (CT)	Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes x 2	Yes (but consider gen3 version too)	Tracking Various Circuits inside consumer unit (electrical panel)
Shelly Pro EM	Energy Tracker (CT)	Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes x 1	Yes	Tracking EV Charger Circuit
Shelly 1PM Mini (gen2)	Relay + Energy Tracker	Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes x 1	Yes (but latest version)	Tracking and controlling light
Shelly 1PM Mini (gen3)	Relay + Energy Tracker	Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes x 7	Yes (but latest version)	Tracking and controlling light

How to add a delay to voice assistant activation M5Stack Atom Echo so other devices have priority

Start from known firmware state

Install the latest stock ESPHome firmware for the voice assistant on the atom echo

Plug the device into PC and visit this website - https://esphome.io/projects/ select voice assistant and the atom echo device connect and install firmware and configure to wifi credentials

Adopt the device into the ESPHome Builder Tool on home assistant

Go through the process of adopting and setting encryption key

LocalTuya does not work on HA 2025.5

Home assistant depricated some older methods in 2025.5. this was well documented and had a long warning period... you should refer to the LocalTuya Repo - https://github.com/rospogrigio/localtuya/

LocalTuya have not yet implemented the fixes

There has been various issues raised on their repo

rospogrigio/localtuya#1851 rospogrigio/localtuya#1864

Example of using Feedreader Integration to display recent news on dashboard

First add the feed you want using the UI

and enter your feed URL

to be sure to only get the latest news item configure the integration

How to disable wake word and instead use button to activate voice assistant on M5Stack Atom Echo

Start from known firmware state

Install the latest stock ESPHome firmware for the voice assistant on the atom echo

Plug the device into PC and visit this website - https://esphome.io/projects/ select voice assistant and the atom echo device connect and install firmware and configure to wifi credentials

Adopt the device into the ESPHome Builder Tool on home assistant

Go through the process of adopting and setting encryption key

Home Assisant Server hardware recomendations

The hardware that you should look at for running hope assistant depends greatly on your plans and requirements

Home Assistant Green

https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

This is a great product if you are just starting out and want to learn. It allows you to jump in without alot of complicated setup.

It is however limited as it is a very low poer and low performence hardwaree. If you are looking to run alot of addons (an addon is not an integration) to run addition services then you will find the green will get bogged down

Voice PE setup with small Anker Speaker

looking for a better speaker then the built in speaker so you can enjoy music from your voice-PE

This is a setup I have which works great

Hardware

Home Assistant Voice PE - https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

Anker Soundcore Mini - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HTH3C8S

HAOS 15 Broke My Install

There are some likely situations for this problem, but may be others

please see below but keep in mind that you may need to freh install and restore from backup.

Using A Raspberry Pi

The Issue seems to be that the rpi's bootloader needs to be updated. This is not something HAOS can do itself.

The solution

Home Assistant FAQ's and Solutions

a list of typed up answered to questions that have or are likely to come upmore than once.

Hardware Choice for Home Assistant

Server Hardware Choice - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/7a7bfed8610491a2c93acb44a2400866

USB Zigbee adaptor - https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/

voice satellite - https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

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