Passive Infrared Sensors or PIR sensors for short or just Motion Sensor are completely supported by Home Assistant and ESPHome. I have a question for you why to buy an expensive motion sensor when you can DIY for cheap. In this article I will show you what parts you will Read more…
I will show you how Home Assistant Bitcoin monitoring can be achieved using several different ways. Also how to create automations that will notify you when the Bitcoin price goes up or down. Same approach can be used for other Crypto Currencies. Coming up. What is the end goal of Read more…
Today I will show the latest 4K cameras from Reolink with local Person & Vehicle detection + NVR from Reolink and Home Assistant – working together seamlessly in a beautiful combination. This is probably the best security cameras solution that you can have in terms of features and lowest price. Read more…
I will show you how to create Home Assistant Wake on Lan (WoL) switch to turn on your desktop computer. As well as how to use Home Assistant RPC shutdown add-on to turn off a Windows PC with a click of button. Using Home Assistant you can control many things Read more…
In today’s article I will show you how to add a Home Assistant System Monitor to track the CPU temperature, free disk space and general performance of your system where Home Assistant is installed. Also how to check the Home Assistant Database size, how to measure the network bandwidth and Read more…
In todays article I’m going to answer the following questions: What is MQTT and MQTT Broker? How to Install Mosquitto MQTT Broker? What is Quality of Service (QoS), Last will (LWT) and Retain messages. Also I will demo the MQTT Home Assistant and MQTT Node-RED integration. Plus some more. Coming Read more…
In today’s article we are going to talk about Home Assistant Google cast integration and Home Assistant cast functionality. As always we are not only going to do sweet talks, but we will see everything in action. We will setup these things first and then we will start casting like Read more…
Imagine a local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Imagine no more as there is one. It is called Frigate and I’m going to demonstrate how to setup it and how Home Assistant Frigate integration is working. What is Frigate? Frigate is an Open Source software that Read more…
Home Assistant Tasmota integration allows you to control Tasmotized Devices over MQTT without having to add a tone of YAML code. Let’s see this in action What is Tasmota? Tasmota is the best open source firmware for ESP8266 and ESP8285 based IOT devices. Home Assistant is the best open source Read more…
After you finish reading this Home Assistant UniFi Integration article you will be able to do presence detection, block network access for any clients, check bandwidth and uptime sensors and more. Everything that you will need is Home Assistant and UniFi network equipment. What is needed for Home Assistant UniFi Read more…
