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Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You probably have a charger at home, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months 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.

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