10 of the best add-ons for Home Assistant — In case your setup has stagnated a bit

Home Assistant is an incredible platform that reduces the complexity of managing all your smart appliances. From its remote monitoring features to compatibility with most smart gadgets and IoT devices, Home Assistant can turn any dull living space into an automated fortress.

What’s more, it has a robust list of integrations and add-ons, and you can even add more plugin repositories to take your smart home setup to the next level. But since it can get tough to sift through the barrage of integrations on the web, XDA Developers has compiled a list of the best plugins for most users.

There are actually a mass of plugins available for HA, especially if you include the HACS ones. HA Can be one of the more useful services in the home. There are one or two in this list that I'll also be trying out.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/best-add-ons-for-home-assistant

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 Bit disappointing as it seems some of that info that XDA Devs just posted, may be a bit out of date. 

 Missing SmartIR and Alarmo. Also the best you can do is get rid of the damn Raspberry Pi and install on real hardware. In my opinion RPI is not suitable for production-use in case of Home Assistant. 

 True, but mine started out that way, then got a hard drive, and then migrated to a bigger machine.