Node-RED Matrix chat bot module for Node-RED I've been using a self-hosted federated Matrix server for chatting with family members and recently deployed it for one of my clients and needed a decent way to administrate the
Node-RED Restarting crashed game server containers with Node-RED Ever have a game server lock up but not fully crash so it doesn't trigger a restart? I've been having this issue recently with my Sven Co-op server and I
Node-RED Tracking game server stats using Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana Tracking server statistics can be extremely handy and I just haven't come across many great options for game servers. There are free options like GameTracker but their tracker only queries
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 Assistant Circadian lighting with Home Assistant and Node-RED Updated Feb 20, 2020: The developer of node-red-contrib-sun-position updated their node so now the flow is quite a bit shorter. Circadian Lighting is syncing your color lights with the local
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 Assistant Fixing slow Hue motion sensors in Home Assistant using Node-RED Currently Home Assistant only polls for Hue motion sensor data every 5 seconds which makes motion events slow and unusable for automatic lights and other automations. There was an open
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.
