Home Automation Overriding Home Assistant components You've always been able to create custom components for Home Assistant by creating a custom_components folder inside your HA directory but did you know you can use this method
Unraid Installing MQTT in Unraid I use MQTT for all of the sensors in my Home Automation setup. It runs on my home server and all of my devices/sensors connect to it to publish
Home Automation Hiding unavailable Chromecasts in Home Assistant front-end I prefer to keep only active devices displaying in Home Assistant's front-end to keep things clean and was previously using Node-RED to accomplish this. Now with recent update's to Home
Home Automation Recommended cheap privacy-focused thermostat for Home Assistant Lots of smart devices these days require you to use the cloud and have an active internet connection in order to use the device. This is pretty crazy because in
Home Automation Great way to display triggered sensors in Home Assistant Having a quick view of triggered sensors can be extremely handy (such as if you forgot to close a door or want to know where motion is currently occurring). In
Home Assistant Announcing Home Assistant events from wall-mounted tablet I recently set up my Wall-mounted Amazon Fire Tablet running WallPanel to voice when any of the doors to the house open/close (including my garage door) and has actually
Home Automation My Smart Lighting Setup I've been getting requests to show off my smart lighting setup using Home Assistant & Node-RED so here it is. I have quite a lot of inputs and sensors that
Home Automation Day & Night theme for Home Assistant using Node-RED Did you know you can make an automation to change the theme of Home Assistant? This works great if you want to setup a day/night theme. Lets see how
Home Automation Wall mounted tablet running Home Assistant Home Assistant is connected to all of the smart devices in my house so having quick and easy access to it is important. This is why I decided to take
Home Automation Hide/Show Chromecast from Home Assistant front-end using Node-RED Chromecast integration in Home Assistant is nice but it is annoying having the cards left there when the device is offline. This especially gets bad once you have more than
Home Automation Hacking Hue remotes to trigger any automation with Node-RED The Hue Tap and Wireless Dimmer Switches are pretty awesome out of the box but did you know you can use it to trigger automations to do just about anything?
Home Automation Dim Home Assistant lights when Chromecast is playing Currently my favorite automation is the one that dims my living room lights when my Chromecast is detected playing something. It will also bring the lights back to their normal
Home Automation Using Node-RED as the brains for Home Assistant instead of YAML Home Assistant is a great platform but writing automations in yaml can be a bit.. annoying. It especially gets bad once you reach around 4,000 lines in your automations.
Home Automation Enable/Disable Node-RED flows from the Home Assistant UI Automatic lights are nice but sometimes you would like to disable the automation. This can be achieved nicely by adding an input boolean to Home Assistant that lets you enable/disable the flow from the web UI (from any device). What you needNode-RED installed
Home Automation Automatic lights in Home Assistant using Node-RED Motion sensor lights aren't anything new but with the advent of IOT devices they are a lot smarter, easier to configure, cost less money, completely wireless, and use a lot less power. In this post I will share how I use these devices to
Home Automation Use Xeoma security cameras to trigger Home Assistant lights Want to get the motion status from your security cameras in Xeoma to display in Home Assistant? Or do you just want to convert HTTP Requests into MQTT messages? I'll show you the neat way that I accomplished this using Node-RED.
