I’m diving into an exciting Alexa Media Player project that combines the power of Home Assistant and Alexa – turning your Alexa devices into media players within your Smart Home ecosystem. Picture this: sending custom text-to-speech announcements, triggering special sound effects, and seamlessly weaving your Alexa devices into your Home Read more…
Why Home Assistant Remote Access is a must? In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, the concept of a Smart Home has evolved from a novelty to a necessity. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, having control over your home’s various systems from anywhere has become a game-changer. Read more…
What contactless liquid sensor is? Can you make such sensor smart by your own? Proudly present you another DIY smart sensor named XKC Y25 that is working with Home Assistant. This time I will show you how to easily create an Intelligent non-contact level sensor that can detect whether a Read more…
Hello, today I’ll show the new features introduced in Home Assistant 2023.2 release. I will start with the smaller changes first and I will gradually go to the biggest ones. So, buckle your belts, as this new release is full of exciting new things and I can’t wait to tell Read more…
Today I will talk about something super important, especially with the current state of the world and that is the air quality in our homes. Recently, I became concerned that the air quality in my house is not good enough. Partly because of the winter season in my region and 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…
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…
