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Automation

Powerful automated reminders via Home Assistant and how to clear notifications

Everybody forgets things. With Home Assistant you can use the power of your smart home to stop that. I build a well working reminder system via Home Assistant for different tasks. Its fully features with a text reminder, virtual or physical button to confirm it and a log. Here is Read more…

By Oliver, 3 weeks ago
3d printing

How to add a camera to Octoprint & Home Assistant – for a smarter printer with awesome timelapses

Octoprint is a powerful software to make your 3D printer even better. To reach its full potential you have to add a camera – for awesome timelapses and even better integration with your smart home. Here is how to add a camera to Octoprint (using a Prusa Mini). Setting up Read more…

By Oliver, 1 month ago
smart light

A small Zigbee smart plug with power measurement – is the best smart plug for ZHA from Aqara?

Smart plugs allow you to measure power usage and turn pretty much every electricity powered device smart(er). Which is the best one? The Aqara smart plug makes a pretty good case for joining your Home Assistant and ZHA DIY smart home with its small and sleek design and the included Read more…

By Oliver, 2 months09.12.2022 ago
Automation

Its magic! Controlling a Magic Mirror with a motion sensor from Home Assistant to save energy

A magic mirror is a stunning piece of furniture and tech but running it constantly draws a lot of power. I am switching mine on and off based on a motion sensor using Home Assistant. Here is how to do that. The Magic Mirror I have described how I built Read more…

By Oliver, 3 months07.11.2022 ago
Automation

Making your existing doorbell smart by repurposing an Aqara door sensor

How do you add an existing doorbell to your smart home? I did it by connecting it to a modified Aqara door sensor. Now a ring will flash lights, send a message to my phone or do anything else I want it to – with all the power of Home Read more…

By Oliver, 6 months ago
3d printing

Connecting OctoPrint to Home Assistant via MQTT

OctoPrint and your 3D printer can be controlled and monitored by Home Assistant either via an integration or via MQTT. This article will describe the more generic MQTT solution. Connecting OctoPrint to MQTT In another article I have already described how to connect Home Assistant to Octoprint via an integration. Read more…

By Oliver, 11 months27.02.2022 ago
HomeAssistant

Using a target selector in a condition with Home Assistant blueprints

Blueprints are a powerful feature of Home Assistant that makes sharing and using automations simpler. Unfortunately using the target selector in a condition is not supported by default. I needed this for an automation of mine and found a way. Blueprints and the target selector Blueprints are one of the Read more…

By Oliver, 12 months20.02.2022 ago
HomeAssistant

Scraping – How to track data from the web with Home Assistant and Grafana

Waiting times, prices or dates – any information that is freely available on the web can be collected by you with a process called scraping. With Home Assistant and Grafana I built a simple system to find out at what times of the week my gym has the fewest visitors Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year23.01.2022 ago
3d printing

Octoprint and Home Assistant – making your 3D printer smart(er)

Here is how I integrated my Prusa Mini with Octoprint and Home Assistant. While 3D printers are a really great tool for makers in general they get even better when combining them with a smart home setup. With the free Octoprint software it is easy to make your 3D printer Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year22.01.2022 ago
Automation

Monitoring Raspberry Pis with Home Assistant – get ahead of any failure with this simple setup

A smart home server is the heart of your setup. It needs to be running well to power everything else. Monitoring Raspberry Pis, my favorite low power server, is easy to set up and helps you to detect errors early on. This is how you can easily set up monitoring Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year15.11.2021 ago

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