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Home Assistant Add-On

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SMLIGHT Zigbee Coordinators. So Many Options!

SMLIGHT Zigbee Coordinators. So Many Options!

I review some of the SMLIGHT Zigbee coordinators that you should use in your smart home with Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, and ZHA.

Top HACS Integrations and custom cards for Home Assistant

Top HACS Integrations and custom cards for Home Assistant

💡Watch the related video HERE! I recently did a video on the top (critical) Home Assistant add-ons that power my smart home. Based on your feedback in the video, I am also going to cover my top HACS integrations and frontend components. If you are not familiar with HACS, it

Zooz ZEN37 Wireless Remote

Zooz ZEN37 Wireless Remote

💡Watch the video on this topic here! I have always wanted to try a wireless Z-Wave button device. I recently came across the ZEN37 from Zooz. There are probably many options is this arena but I have the Zooz ZEN32 wired scene controller and the ZEN37 fits right in with

Top Home Assistant Add-ons 2024 Edition

Home Assistant 2024

Top Home Assistant Add-ons 2024 Edition

I've done a top Home Assistant add-ons video for the past couple of years. This year I thought I would change it up a bit and show those add-ons that are needed, dare say critical, to make my smart home run. Without them, there would be no smart home.

Top Home Assistant Add-ons 2023 Edition

Home Assistant Add-On

Top Home Assistant Add-ons 2023 Edition

We are a couple of months (ok three) into 2023 and I think it's finally time to do my annual top add-ons video and blog post. I like to highlight what is most important to my home automation setup and what I think are invaluable. NOTE: I am

Ditching LastPass for Bitwarden

Ditching LastPass for Bitwarden

LastPass has had a serious data breach. Maybe it's time to take control of your passwords!

EMQX Is the Perfect MQTT Broker to View Your Traffic

EMQX Is the Perfect MQTT Broker to View Your Traffic

In Home Assistant, I have been using the core available Eclipse MQTT Mosquitto Broker for a long time and it has been working flawlessly. The problem with that broker is that in order to view traffic and troubleshoot issues, I have to go to external software OR use different screens

Keeping Tabs on your Network

Keeping Tabs on your Network

If you run a home lab or run anything of importance in your home network, it is important to know when things are not working as expected. I've had many occasions in which something went down and I was either notified by the owner of the service I