Home Assistant Integrations

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.

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Better Home Assistant Backups Using Auto Backup

Making backups is SUPER important. I show you the EASY way to back up Home Assistant with Auto Backup.

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Top HACS Integrations and custom cards for Home Assistant

Linptech

Human Here? My First Presence Sensor

Trying out the Linptech 24g MmWave human presence detector and Home Assistant.

Automation

My Top 5 Automations in Home Assistant

Smart homes run on automations. Here are my TOP 5 in Home Assistant and Node-RED

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Conversations and Service Call Data in Home Assistant

Make your IoT work for you. Conversations and Sentence Triggers with Automations in Home Assistant.

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Using Your VOIP Phone to Control Your House

Home Assistant has been working on local voice control and adding functionality to extend that to more than just the typical smart speakers. They do this through integrations and what they call "assist pipelines". 💡Watch my related video here. Assist pipelines include speech-to-text and text-to-speech. For those, they

Frigate NVR

Frigate NVR Version 0.12. Now with go2rtc.

I have been using Frigate for a year or more (I forget how long) and it has been fantastic. I integrate it with Home Assistant so I can get all the smartness of both platforms. The latest version of Frigate NVR is out with new features, including the switch to

Matter Standard

Trying to Use Matter

I tried to use Matter with Home Assistant. It didn't work.

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Playing with Home Assistant SkyConnect and Migrating Zigbee

I run a Home Assistant Yellow that has a Zigbee radio already installed (and a matter-ready radio for that matter). Today I'm going to move over to the new Home Assistant SkyConnect on the same device to see how that works and then I will migrate from my

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Find Missing Entities in Home Assistant

The longer I run Home Assistant, the more I find that I have missing, unavailable, and orphaned entities and services. It's hard to keep tabs on all the changes that happen when an integration or add-on is updated. Sometimes changes to entities or services are required. Even though

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

Cameras

Frigate NVR with Docker and Home Assistant

I have been using Frigate for a while now and recently I moved my whole Frigate setup first from Home Assistant as an add-on to a VirtualBox VM, and finally to a Dell Optiplex Micro running Frigate in a Docker Container. This post and related video are at the request

Home Assistant

Home Assistant Repair Center and MQTT

If you are not familiar with the Home Assistant Repair center, you should be. It's a fantastic tool that helps you know when there are potential issues with your Home Assistant instance and suggests corrective actions. Take a look at my video if you want more details. Recently,

Home Assistant

Home Assistant Control and Notifications on Your PC

Hass.Agent on your Windows PC tied together with Home Assistant can do a LOT of things. Controlling aspects of your PC from Home Assistant and controlling entities in Home Assistant from your PC are just a few of those things. HASS.Agent is a Windows-based client (companion) application for

Home Assistant

Nest Integration with Home Assistant

💡NOTE: If you've come here from my YouTube video comment about the application credentials, here is an explanation. If you are getting strange errors or errors related to your application credentials OR you have done this integration before but are starting over, you need to delete your application

Home Assistant

Weather Integrations and Severe Weather Alerts in Home Assistant

Add weather integrations and severe weather alerting to Home Assistant.