Why to DIY pH Sensor for Home Assistant? There are a several important water characteristics that have to be monitored and controlled all the time so the water in your pool, fish tank, or for gardening can stay usable and healthy. One of the most important water characteristics is the Read more…
Do you know that new Home Assistant 2022.8 release is around the corner. Let’s see what is new, what will eventually break, and what are the possible ways to repair it. As usual I will try to explain and demonstrate the new things as best as I can. Home Assistant Read more…
Shelly Motion 2 was just released, but what is good and what is bad about it? I will try to show you everything and as usual, I will add Shelly Motion 2 in Home Assistant and I will create some demo automation. 🎁 GIVEAWAY ALERT 🎁! I just contacted Alterco Read more…
I always wanted to have a local smart speaker that can announce Text-to-Speech messages configured in my Home Assistant automations. Thanks to ESP Muse Luxe this is now possible, but it needs some configurations upfront. Check everything below. Why Local Smart Speaker is needed? Until now I used Alexa, but Read more…
Until now, it was not possible to install Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi 4 over the network. The process requires you to have another computer, on which you have to perform several steps to prepare your future Raspberry Pi storage. Only after that, you were able to continue the Read more…
As a Swiss clock every first Wednesday of the month we have a new Home Assistant version. And this month is no exception, as the new Home Assistant 2022.7 was released to the general public. In this article I will show you 7 of the most interesting new features, and Read more…
What is who is ringing Home Automation? I always wanted to have one simple, but very useful Home Automation, namely when someone rings at my front door I want to receive a picture on my phone or on my smart watch showing me who is ringing. If you want to Read more…
Matter standard, which was formerly known as Connected Home over IP or CHIP is a Smart Home royalty free standard announced back in 2019. What is Matter Standard? The main goal of Matter standard is to achieve interoperability between Smart Home and IoT (Internet of Things) devices from different vendors. Read more…
In today’s post, I will show you how to create a Cloudflare tunnel to Home Assistant, so you can remotely connect to your Smart Home without opening any ports. After reading this post till the end, you’ll be able to access your Home Assistant from anywhere. You can do so Read more…
How to update and how to add the Aeotec Z-Stick 7 in Home Assistant using the Z-Wave JS integration. The whole point of doing this is to add a Z-Wave controller in your Smart Home so you can control & automate Z-Wave compatible devices inside Home Assistant. I realized that Read more…
