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 these sensors can be used in automations. What is Home 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. What is NVR? First of all let’s clear this out and answer the question what is NVR? NVR 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 cover all these cases in this article. What means Home 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 that in this video. What will you see in this article 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. What will you see in this article? Exposing a local server or service to the 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 the past with a push of a button? Actually you 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. Check this story if you are in a hurry Intro You may wonder 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 and now the latest release brings even more changes like 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 there are years of experience and fine tuning in your Read more…
I will show you one unified way that will allow using the Home Assistant notifications with the most popular messengers out there very easily. Mainly because I can’t stress enough on how important the timely notifications are in a smart home. What will you get from this article? We are Read more…
