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…
Last updated on February 18th, 2021 at 01:48 pm 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 Read more…
Last updated on January 18th, 2021 at 04:39 pm 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 Read more…
Last updated on August 23rd, 2020 at 07:26 am 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 Read more…
Last updated on August 23rd, 2020 at 07:30 am 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 Read more…
Last updated on February 7th, 2021 at 10:36 am 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 Read more…
Last updated on August 5th, 2020 at 09:06 am 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. Read more…
Last updated on February 3rd, 2021 at 10:04 pm 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 Read more…
Last updated on August 5th, 2020 at 09:08 am 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 Read more…
Last updated on January 18th, 2021 at 04:39 pm 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 Read more…
