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…
The stars of this article will be the Universal Remote control Broadlink RM4 Pro with Home Assistant and Node-RED. The secondary roles will go to your existing remote controls and at the end we are going to retire them with honors. What will you see in this article? Last week 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…
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 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…
I will show you Home Assistant Node Red InfluxDB and Grafana integration in very fast, easy and understandable way.
I wanted to find a way to cast images or audio from Node-RED to my Chromecast when something important happens in my Smart Home. Fortunately I manage to find how to do that and now I’m about to show it to you in details.
I had terrible incident with Sonoff POWR2 device and connected water heater that almost burned my house. Now I’ll try to connect the water heater with Shelly 1PM and then of course I will add it to Home Assistant and Node-RED.
In this video I will show you the ESP32-CAM. This is the cheapest WIFI camera that I’ve ever found on the market. Also This tiny Camera can stream video via web server and can work with Node-RED & Home Assistant and I will show you how.
In this video I will unbox the latest Sonoff GK-200MP2-B camera that has RTSP support, 360 degree viewing angle, 1080p, night vision, motion detection, two-way audio and it cost around 30 US dollars. After that I will connect it to Home Assistant & Node-RED.
