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…
There are several ways to install Home Assistant from scratch and I will show you two different methods (Home Assistant Supervised & Home Assistant Container). Check this story if you are in a hurry What will you get from this article? The first method – called Home Assistant Container is 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…
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…
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.
