The brand new Home Assistant companion for macOS was just released as part of what the heck month in the Home Assistant community. I will show you how to install it, what new sensors are added after installation and how Read more…
Prepare yourself for a Reolink NVR or Blue Iris and Home Assistant review. I got my hands on two cameras from Reolink – RLC-522 and RLC-520 as well as Reolink NVR RLN8-410. Table of Contents What is NVR?What will you Read more…
Probably you already know about Home Assistant Actionable Notifications or you never heard about them. Maybe you are using Home Assistant Companion App or you never ever seen it before. I will say it doesn’t matter. I will try to Read more…
Some people have a hard time choosing between Home Assistant and SmartThings as their main Smart Home hub. But I will say why don’t you have them both working at the same time. I will show you how to do Read more…
You may want to have Home Assistant remote access from everywhere, but you don’t want to setup complicated VPNs or to pay for the cloud service? If yes, then this article is just for you. Table of Contents What will Read more…
By creating your own Home Assistant Vacation mode you can use Smart Lights to protect your home from thieves during your vacation. And would it be great if you have the possibility to automatically replay your real light schedule from Read more…
In this article I will show you how to optimize and troubleshoot UniFi Access Points (UAP) including the UniFI Dream Machine (UDM). Check the current price of the UnFi gear that I’m using: UniFi Dream Machine – https://amzn.to/3duBodd UniFi AP Read more…
I will show you not one, but three different ways to install Node-RED, so you can choose which one is the best for you. On top I will show you how to integrate Node-RED with Home Assistant. Table of Contents Read more…
Home Assistant Automations and Scripts are very useful and you can do a lot of cool stuff with them to make your life easier and your home smarter. But sometimes they seems a little bit complicated and hard to understand Read more…
Now is the best time (the only better time was yesterday) to setup a reliable Home Assistant backup to GitHub and start experimenting and enhancing without worries. And it doesn’t matter if you have brand new Home Assistant installation or Read more…
