Daniel Rosehillheyitworks.tech·Feb 6, 2025Home Assistant: Smoke Alarm Display & AutomationsSafety is paramount, and integrating smoke alarms into your Home Assistant setup is a crucial step in ensuring your home's safety. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of how to integrate smart smoke alarms into your Home Assistant dashboard ...Home Assistantsafety
Noah Yaonoahyao.me·Feb 1, 2025Integrate HomeAssistant on NAS with HomeKitBackground I am using a QNAP ARM CPU NAS, so its power efficiency is supposed to be a great advantage. I want to integrate the accessories, especially the IR remote, with HomeKit for a better user experience when controlling the old air conditioner...Home Assistant
Daniel Rosehillheyitworks.tech·Jan 30, 2025Home Assistant Shabbat & Yom Tov Dashboards (Jan 2025)For religiously observant Jews, home automation provides a great means of observing the Shabbat and its strictures around the use of electronics. I've covered some binary sensor configurations in another post. In this one I wanted to share a slightly...Home Assistantjewish
Daniel Rosehillheyitworks.tech·Jan 22, 2025Home Assistant Automations For Yom Tov & Shabbat ObservanceThis post details how to configure Home Assistant to support the observance of Shabbat and Yom Tov. This is an updated guide, building on previous documentation with modifications that simplify the setup process. AI credit: Cloud 3.5 Sonnet for rewri...26 reads#Shabbat
Nicolas Fränkelfrankel.hashnode.dev·Jan 20, 2025The Home Assistant companion appBesides a regular webapp and a Mac app, which uses the same endpoints as the webapp, Home Assistant also provides mobile apps. In this post, I want to describe its advantages over the former. I'll use iOS to do this: Samsung's French partner to recyc...Home Assistant
Donwinter-forest.hashnode.dev·Jan 8, 2025Getting stats from Aqara Smart Socket.How to Get Monitoring Stats from an Aqara Smart Plug EU Version to Home Assistant via a Sonoff Zigbee Coordinator If you’ve been struggling to get monitoring stats like power usage and voltage from your Aqara smart plug (EU version) visible in Home A...Aqara
Nicolas FränkelforApache APISIXapisix.hashnode.dev·Dec 26, 2024An example of HACS: Adaptive LightingIn the previous post of this focus, we replaced Philips Hue automation with the one from Home Assistant. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn't automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day, a feature Ph...HACS
Jean-François Simardblog.dgi.productions·Dec 12, 2024Preparing for a new houseI am about to purchase a house and really looking forward to it! This is a great opportunity to geek out on the networking I’ll put in, the home automation I’ll configure via Home Assistant and see what I will do to have technology make the family li...Home Assistant
vulyvuly.hashnode.dev·Dec 9, 2024Connect to homeassistant remotely over IPv6Most ISP today support IPv6 address.If you connect the home assistant to the router and the router is configured correctly the homeassitant should acquire IPv6 address. configuring the router:Basically for configuring the router there are two options...Home Assistant
Simon Fosterfunkysi1701.hashnode.dev·Dec 2, 2024Top Electricity Consuming Devices in Your HomeI have been wondering what devices in my house use the most electricity. I have a smart meter which tells me how much electricity I am using, but it doesn’t tell me what devices are using the most electricity. Recently I purchased 12 of these ANTELA ...electricity