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Home Assistant Alerts

Home Assistant Alerts

This is a written walk through of my recent Alerts video, so if you haven’t checked that out, you can find it over on Youtube at https://youtu.be/gluji2_uYws Alerts in Home Assistant are simply prebuilt automations that can deliver notifications. And they allow you to quickly

Building a Daily Briefing

Building a Daily Briefing

If you saw my recent video on building a Daily Briefing in Home Assistant and you are here for some code, thanks for checking out my videos. If you haven’t seen the video you might wan to check it out first: Building a Daily Briefing has the potential to

Home Assistant Webhook Primer

Home Assistant Webhook Primer

I recently did a video talking through using web hooks in home Assistant to create some automations to monitor another home assistant instance. And while its not a universal use case, it did allow me to create a video showing how to create a web hook, and leverage automation triggers

Add the Home Assistant Community Store to Home Assistant

Add the Home Assistant Community Store to Home Assistant

The Home Assistant Community Store or HACS as it is known as is an awesome custom component that opens a whole another level of Home Assistant add-ons. If you are using Home Assistant at some point you are going to want something that can be installed via HACS! Getting HACS

Migrating from a Raspberry Pi4 to Home Assistant Blue

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Migrating from a Raspberry Pi4 to Home Assistant Blue

In my last post I told you about my first impressions of Home Assistant Blue. It really is a pretty nice little device, and it has everything to get started with Home Assistant. Heck, I think it has everything most people running home assistant need. And that includes me. So

Smarter Automations in Home Assistant Using Choose

Smarter Automations in Home Assistant Using Choose

In a previous post I talked about how you could use scripts with your Home Assistant automations to add some simple decision logic. But in keeping with the Choose-Your-Own adventure take on building a smart home, Home Assistant gives you another way to accomplish the same thing. Back in version

How To Use Modes in Home Assistant Automations

How To Use Modes in Home Assistant Automations

Back in version .115 Home Assistant added some mode options for automations, and gave us more control over the flow. And if you are like me you may not have paid much attention to them at first. These new modes add the ability to define how an automation handles getting

Build Smarter Automations in Home Assistant Using Scripts

Build Smarter Automations in Home Assistant Using Scripts

Automations may be the one thing that brings all of smart home enthusiasts to the yard. After all, its is the in the name Home Automation. However, the problem is unless you are willing to invest time writing code, the automation you can build out of the box with most