Some Home Assistant growing pains
A couple of recent releases of Home Assistant have had breaking changes that have affected me, and they’re a result of some growing pains…
Posts in category "Home Automation"
Sprucing up my Home Assistant
Since I started using Home Assistant I’ve been using the basic display options in the front end. It’s been fine – it’s simple and a good starting point. Home Assistant, though, is far more flexible than that,,,
When is a person not a person?
Object detection – the ability to identify specific objects in a picture – has made all the difference to my Zoneminder camera monitoring…
What watts?
I’m so bored in lockdown that I’ve been using a smart plug to measure power draw from various devices…
Sending CCTV to the cloud
I finally got round to adding another critical element to my Zoneminder CCTV system…
Linux to OneDrive via Synology
I run Home Assistant and a number of other things from a small Linux PC that acts as my server. It’s not storing much critical data but it would be a pain if I lost all of the configuration…
Maintaining a smart home
It turns out you can’t just set up a smart home and expect everything to keep running smoothly. A certain amount of routine maintenance is essential…
Managing Zoneminder notifications with Home Assistant
The last few posts have described how I got Zoneminder working with object detection and configured so that notifications are managed by Home Assistant…
Zoneminder and Home Assistant
I’ve got the excellent zmEventNotification configured but I’m not using it to send notifications directly. Here’s why…