There are several ways to install Home Assistant from scratch and I will show you two different methods (Home Assistant Supervised & Home Assistant Container). What will you get from this article? The first method – called Home Assistant Container is actually a Home Assistant running in Docker container and Read more…
The Stable Raspberry Pi 4 USB boot is here! And I will show you how to get it! Shortly after my previous Raspberry Pi 4 SSD boot article was released the BETA bootloader was promoted to STABLE. Now I want to show you several things: How to enable the Stable Read more…
In todays article I will show you how to install KODI on a Raspberry Pi using LibreELEC and then we will add Kodi to Home Assistant. If you don’t know what is Kodi we will talk about that later in the video. I’m pretty sure that you will find something Read more…
Official Raspberry Pi 4 USB boot – finally! That means you can use SSD or HDD drives instead of SD card in your Raspberry. What you will see in this article? In today’s article I will show you how you can do the above step by step and you don’t Read more…
Wireless Reolink camera, RTSP, motionEye, Blue iris, Node-RED and Home Assistant. Or in other words in todays article I will play with a Reolink wireless camera and I will add it to one of the most popular Software NVRs, namely: MotionEye and Blue Iris. After that I will show you Read more…
Do you know what is Smart Home with bad Wi-Fi the answer was my home until very recently. Now I bought the UniFi Dream Machine and I hope that everything is going to change for good. What you will see in this article? In todays article I will show you Read more…
The guys from Home Assistant released a new major version with a lot of new cool features like this beautiful Home Assistant calendar menu. To enable it you have to add a calendar integration to your home assistant and I will show you how you can easily do that with Read more…
In today’s article we will go to the fun part of a Smart Home and that will be the Media in all forms. To help us with that we will use Plex Media Server right from the Home Assistant Add-on store. Common Situation in Smart Homes Here’s a common situation Read more…
The Shelly door window sensor detects and reports the opening and closing of door and windows, tilt angle, vibration and lux. And guess what I will integrate this sensor in Home Assistant and Node-RED without any flashing or modifications. Shelly Door Window sensor I bought this brand new battery powered Read more…
Is MotionEye the ultimate NVR? I will show you how you can install and configure MotionEye on Raspberry Pi or any other linux device.