ESPHome Bluetooth Proxies is a brand new way to add Bluetooth support to your Home Assistant or to expand the Bluetooth coverage in your Smart Home. In essence an ESP32 based board is used to communicate with your WIFI, your Home Assistant and your Bluetooth devices. It is something like Read more…
Home Assistant 2022.9 is bringing some great new features and I will try to show you the most interesting ones in this article. If you have hard time understanding some of the Smart Home words and abbreviations that I’m using in this article – don’t worry, I got you covered Read more…
Shelly Plus H&T is the next generation Temperature & Humidity sensor that is coming from Alterco Robotics. But what means next generation? Is there anything special in it? What is good and what is bad? Can it work with Home Assistant? I will try to answer these questions starting right Read more…
Home Assistant Yellow is a smart home hub designed from scratch for the best, free & open source home automation platform available at the moment called – Home Assistant. Yellow can be used by beginners or by advanced users with the same success, but what is good and what is Read more…
Xiaomi Bluetooth Home Assistant Integration is now possible Natively! As you may know there is one Xiaomi Bluetooth temperature & humidity sensor that becomes very popular lately, because it is cheap, it is good looking and its battery last forever. On top you can add this Xiaomi T&H sensor to Read more…
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…
