Home Assistant Mobile Dashboard With Big Buttons
A dedicated Home Assistant Mobile view puts garages, locks, thermostats, status, and camera drill-throughs behind large two-column controls that work even when I do not have my glasses.
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Home Assistant Leak Detection Automations
A practical Home Assistant leak-detection automation pattern using a water shutoff valve, maintenance guards, Activity Feed logging, Repairs tracking, and actionable phone notifications.
Turn a Cheap Fire Tablet Into a Home Assistant Camera Kiosk
A cheap Fire tablet becomes much more useful when it has one focused Home Assistant job: a purpose-built camera kiosk with big camera tiles, Fully Kiosk controls, bedtime…
What’s Running in Home Assistant? A Lovelace Card
If you're a Home Assistant user, you know that automations can be an incredibly useful tool for automating tasks and making your smart home more efficient. But sometimes,…
Unboxing the $440 VilliaNeri Light Starter Pack!
I was sent this starter pack from VillaNERI to check out and WOW! These lights are pretty elegant looking! The price tag is a little lot on the…
Wink is Garbage
I've posted before about the changes Wink forced on their user base post-purchase and the time has finally come to ditch the product altogether. With Home Assistant version…
Choose Local Control for IOT when you can
HiveHome shuts down server infrastructure This month, I received an email from HiveHome stating that on November 30th of this year (2021), my IOT devices would stop working.…
Home Assistant Pet Automation Example
This week, I had the opportunity to showcase a super cool automation that I ran across on our Home Automation Facebook Group. Zerath posted their Home Assistant automation…
Home Assistant IOS Actionable Notifications Example
Here is a fun little project I put together when I realized that Home Assistant could trigger the lost remote function on my Roku. This little discovery allowed…