Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been looking at an easy way to create and control custom entities with Google assistant much like the way I can do with Alexa. We have both voice assistants in our household and well it was …
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So continuing with my Node-red tutorials, I thought I’d take a look at some workstation security related notifications. In this tutorial, I am going to select a couple of scenarios where you might want to be alerted to activity on your windows computer. First, I …
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With the popularity of smarthomes increasing and more interest in connectivity in general, I have seen a lot of requests online from people looking for advice or resources to learn more. These people are usually at the start of their journey and are looking for …
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I thought I’d publish a post to show you how to use Telegram with Node-red. Telegram is an instant messaging platform with a great channel feature. It means that not only can you receive notifications from your Home-Assistant installation, but you can also send commands …
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Hi there. This is a really simple one from me, but useful all the same, particularly if you’re a gamer! I own an Elgato Stream Deck and I love it. I stream when playing computer games and it’s perfect for switching scenes, muting, changing music …
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Recently I upgraded my Home-Assistant supervised (formerly Hassio) installation from 0.113.4 to 0.114.3 (I usually like to wait for a couple of releases so the bugs can be ironed out by others!). I did a quick back up using the G-drive snapshot add-on and waited …
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I thought I’d write up a post detailing how we tackle presence detection and how we can run some simple modular automations on the back of it. I see many people asking online in the forums and on facebook which is the best way to …
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I recently decided to try an add-on called IOTlink. I was looking for a way to remotely monitor and control my main workstation pc. IOTlink seemed to be just the answer. In layman’s terms, it appears to install an MQTT client in Windows which continually …
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So after 18 months in our current home we decided to move out into nature and try and get away from it all for a while. Not only did this mean we could get further into the mountains, and start to enjoy the wilderness a …
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With the recent push in Home-Assistant to become more point and click and less yaml coding, I thought I would take a look and try and clean up some of my yaml and move over to the integration method. For those of you who have …
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