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Your old Android phone is a better Home Assistant dashboard than any cheap tablet

Size isn't everything.
How-To Geek on MSN

I ditched Android Auto voice control for Home Assistant shortcuts—here's what changed

Android Auto voice commands keep mishearing me. The same shortcuts I use in Google Home fixed that.

[Home Assistant] Control from this Android phone, play music on that one

Smartphones are an absolute necessity in the modern age. And surely, one or two old smartphones that have finished their ...
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Home Assistant Android 2026.6.2 Beta Patches URI Hijack Risk, Adds Native Barcode Scanner

Home Assistant's Android companion app shipped a new beta build Thursday morning — version 2026.6.2 — that closes a security gap allowing external URIs to reach app components that were never intended ...
XDA Developers

Claude Code read my entire Home Assistant config, and the mistakes it caught were embarrassingly basic

My Home Assistant’s configuration is spread across several files. configuration.yaml is the starting point, but it references ...