Home Assistant Node-RED vs Home Assistant Automations It's time to move from Node-RED to native Home Assistant automations. I show you step-by-step how to move one of my more complex automations.
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.
Home Assistant Caddy 2 Reverse Proxy for Local Network Device Access I've talked a lot about different ways to access devices in your local network. Cloudflare, Tailscale, Nginx Reverse Proxy, DuckDNS to name a few. In this short article, I am going to take a look at Caddy "The Ultimate Server". Caddy claims to be "a
Home Assistant remote access Using the Cloudflared Add-On I wrote an article and made a video on how to remotely connect to Home Assistant and other internal network resources using Cloudflare Tunnels. I got a ton of feedback on that asking why I didn't use the Cloudflared Home Assistant add-on instead. The simple answer is that
Home Assistant 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
Home Assistant Top Add-Ons 2022 Edition It's time to walk through my most used Home Assistant add-ons and integrations for 2022. Take a look and see what I use to make it all work. My Home Assistant version was 2022.3 at the time of this writing. Here is a list of my add-ons
