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 past with a push of a button? Actually you Read more…
In this article I will show you how to optimize and troubleshoot UniFi Access Points (UAP) including the UniFI Dream Machine (UDM). Check the current price of the UnFi gear that I’m using: UniFi Dream Machine – https://amzn.to/3duBodd UniFi AP AC PRO – https://amzn.to/2XOu4Dw UniFi switch 8 port 60W PoE 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…
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…
The Stable Raspberry Pi 4 USB boot is here! And I will show you how to get it! Shortly after my previous Raspberry Pi 4 SSD boot article was released the BETA bootloader was promoted to STABLE. Now I want to show you several things: How to enable the Stable 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…
Official Raspberry Pi 4 USB boot – finally! That means you can use SSD or HDD drives instead of SD card in your Raspberry. What you will see in this article? In today’s article I will show you how you can do the above step by step and you don’t Read more…
