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Migrating Home Assistant from Raspberry Pi3 to a Raspberry Pi4
WLED Powered LED Strips and Home Assistant.
Ever since watching DrZz’s video on WLED Christmas lights I have wanted to take the plunge and try them out. Then my son asked for a Loft Bed which gave me the perfect place to try them. If you want a good primer on WLED and all your LED strip options check out DrZz’s video.… Continue reading WLED Powered LED Strips and Home Assistant.
Zigbee2Mqtt and OTA Device Firmware Updates
A while back I migrated off of Smartthings to Zigbee2Mqtt so that I could have local control of my Zigbee devices. I haven’t looked back. So I was caught off guard when I was scrolling through my states page (as we all do right?…or Im the only one?…anyone?). Anyway, I was scrolling through the states… Continue reading Zigbee2Mqtt and OTA Device Firmware Updates
Swapping out DuckDNS For Cloudflare
This is a repost of an article I posted on Medium. I have given it a slight edit to update it with my current config and published it here as part of my efforts to consolidate my Home Assistant content A while back I decided to simplify my Home Assistant config and in doing so I… Continue reading Swapping out DuckDNS For Cloudflare
Where We Are Going, We Need Dog Mode
If you have read my post on My Three Laws of Home Automation or my two part series on How I Secured my Home Using Home Assistant it won’t be a surprise that I designed my Home Assistant security system around not having to physically interact with it. It simply arms when it needs to… Continue reading Where We Are Going, We Need Dog Mode
How I Secured My Home Using Home Assistant – Part Two
As I mentioned in Part One of this series, I prioritized my Home Assistant based security system around letting us know when there was an intrusion. It was important that the system let any intruders know their presence was known, and to make sure that we could respond whether we were remote or in another… Continue reading How I Secured My Home Using Home Assistant – Part Two
How I Secured My Home Using Home Assistant – Part One
I’m going to say something that might be unpopular…Residential Monitored Security Systems are a waste of money. Don’t @ me. Just kidding. If you think I am wrong I would love to hear why. Because I might actually be wrong. But before you do let me bring you up to speed on my thought process.… Continue reading How I Secured My Home Using Home Assistant – Part One
Migrating from the Darksky API to NWS Weather API (Updated)
Apple’s recent purchase of Darksky means the API that many of use have been using for weather information is shutting down. I first saw it from @CCOSTAN’s retweet (if you are not following him you should): Or from Darksky’s own blog post. Technically we currently have until the end of 2021 to move to something… Continue reading Migrating from the Darksky API to NWS Weather API (Updated)
Migrating from Hassbian to Home Assistant (Formally Known as Hassio)
I’m sure you have heard the news by now. Hassbian was sunsetted…sunset..sunsettered…anyway…the last update to the image was back in Q4 of 2019. So that means it was time for me to migrate to Hassio....I mean Home Assistant.In-between me actually doing this migration and getting this write up published Hassio underwent a rebranding. In order… Continue reading Migrating from Hassbian to Home Assistant (Formally Known as Hassio)
How I Turned My House into Disney’s Haunted Mansion using Home Assistant
If you haven’t guess from the topic of this article we are Disney fans in this house. I mean Annual Passholder Card Carrying Disney fans. So after getting Home Assistant setup to automate the house I decided I could use the platform to do a little Disney Imagineering. Now I didn’t literally recreate the haunted… Continue reading How I Turned My House into Disney’s Haunted Mansion using Home Assistant