2025.1 Finally! Serious Backups for Home Assistant Super easy local AND off-site encrypted backups for Home Assistant. You need this!
SMLIGHT 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.
Zooz 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
Linptech Human Here? My First Presence Sensor Trying out the Linptech 24g MmWave human presence detector and Home Assistant.
Home Assistant Voice Hands-Free Control with Wake Words Home Assistant continues to make great strides in local voice control for their platform. That latest installment "Year of the Voice Chapter 4" has some nice surprises, the most exciting of which is the ability to use a wake word. 💡The video for this blog can be found
Home Assistant Voice More Voice More Voice More Voice (Local Control) I recently made a video and blog post about controlling Home Assistant entities via a VOIP phone that I have on my desk. This was in answer to being able to use a standard analog telephone with an analog telephone adapter. I wanted to see if the VOIP phone would
Home Assistant 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
Home Assistant Finally! Adding Fan Speed Controls I recently moved to a new house and one of the things about the old house that drove me crazy was having ceiling fans that ran all the time, even when no one was home. I vowed (with the proper approvals) to add fan controls to my Home Assistant setup.
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
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 zigbee 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
mostly chris home assistant 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
Home Automation Home Assistant Release 2022.11 Home Assistant version 2022.11 is now released. With that, some of your WTH (What the Heck?) Â suggestions and feedback have been introduced. If you don't know what WTH is, it's a month in which the Home Assistant team takes in suggestions and feedback outside of
Home Assistant Home Assistant Remote Access with Cloudflare Argo Tunnel Home Assistant sits inside your local network (I hope) and that means it is behind your ISP router and connection. There are MANY ways to connect to Home Assistant in this type of setup. By far, the easiest way is to sign up for a Nabu Casa account and then
Home Assistant Add Custom Button Cards to your Dashboard In my opinion, one of the most useful dashboard elements in Home Assistant is the Button Card by @RomRider. Why do I say that? The feature list alone tells the story. Take a look at what you get with Button Cards as listed on the GitHub page: * works with any
