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…
What is who is ringing Home Automation? I always wanted to have one simple, but very useful Home Automation, namely when someone rings at my front door I want to receive a picture on my phone or on my smart watch showing me who is ringing. If you want to Read more…
Matter standard, which was formerly known as Connected Home over IP or CHIP is a Smart Home royalty free standard announced back in 2019. What is Matter Standard? The main goal of Matter standard is to achieve interoperability between Smart Home and IoT (Internet of Things) devices from different vendors. Read more…
You can make your perfect rare, medium or well done steak using Smart Home Gadgets? In todays article I will show you such a Smart Gadget called Meater. Did you get it? It is a combination from Meat & Thermometer. I will also integrate that Meater with Home Assistant so Read more…
As you may know Elon Musk recently acquired 100% of Twitter and I want to show you one of his latest, breaking tweets where he’s saying that native Home Assistant Twitter integration will be one of the things that he is going to do. And this tweet is totally not Read more…
Hello friends, let’s see what are the most exciting features in the latest Home Assistant 2022.5 release. As usual I’ll not only list you the new things in this release, instead I’m going to demonstrate them to you as best as I can. Because, I have no imagination and I Read more…
Is SwitchBot LED strip lights any good? The standard, not smart LED lights are a thing of the past at this point. Before the end of last year, almost everyone had a strip of LED lights in their space. But what if I tell you that you can have LED Read more…
Today I will show you an officially supported way to customize your Home Assistant Dashboard by adding actionable pictures, buttons and graphs in the headers and/or footers of your Home Assistant cards. Using this, you will be able convert the standard and boring cards into something more beautiful and useful. Read more…
Let’s be honest, Home Assistant learning curve is steep. And although Home Assistant onboarding process is quite intuitive, it can leave you with the feeling that you are missing something. Even if everything is fine with the onboarding, it is possible to get stuck and to do not know what Read more…
