Hello, this article will be a step-by-step tutorial of how to setup secure Home Assistant remote access using NGINX reverse proxy & DuckDNS. In other words you will be able to access your Home Assistant via encrypted connection with a legit, trusted certificate when you are outside your local network, Read more…
Roborock S7 is one of the best robot vacuum cleaners available on the market and for sure the best one that I’ve ever seen so far, but I will not talk about its features and capabilities (if you want to see them check the description in Amazon or AliExpress). Instead Read more…
In this article I will show you how to Install Home Assistant using Docker (Home Assistant Container Installation) and to make this setup complete I will also show you how to access this Home Assistant installation remotely from anywhere in the world for free using Twingate Zero Trust Network. What Read more…
After the latest Home Assistant 2022.3 update, it is now possible to add Play Media Action in your Home Assistant automations. That means you can play camera streams, local media like songs and video clips or even online radios when an automation trigger is activated. In this article I’m also Read more…
Why Home Assistant? You can make your Home Smart using thousands of different devices and you have the freedom to choose between hundreds of Smart Home hubs & voice assistants, but here are my TOP 7 reasons why you have to choose Home Assistant as your main Smart Home Hub. Read more…
Let’s see what actually is Home Assistant and Shelly TRV intelligent temperature control? If you have radiators in your home then don’t stop reading as the things that you will about see here can save you money or time or even both in the long run, as we are going Read more…
In this article we will see what are the up to date options to install ESPHome on an ESP device. This is a complete ESPHome installation guide as we will go through the ESPHome prerequisites, ESP board preparation and several different methods to install ESPHome. Namely using: Home Assistant, using Read more…
In the latest Home Assistant release – Media browser was renamed to just Media, but that is not the only new thing in the new Home Assistant Media section. It is just the opposite, the Media is now full of features like: casting from the web browser, integration support of Read more…
Home Assistant external data disk is possible as the Home Assistant Operating System allows you to store most of its data on an external fast storage such as SSD Drive or USB flash drive. That means for example with a Raspberry Pi – the boot and main operating system partitions can Read more…
It is time for another DIY project and today I will show you how to create Smart Smoke Sensor for Home Assistant with D1 Mini, MQ-2 smoke & gas sensor & ESPHome. Do it yourself or DIY Smoke Sensor for Home Assistant is quite easy and I will guide you Read more…
