Paul Hibbert vs Home Assistant
Paul Hibbert recently released a Youtube video entitled “I tried Home Assistant AGAIN and it’s STILL NOT WORTH IT”… so who is he and is he right?
Setting Hue defaults – part II
In my last post I described how I set my lights to change colour automatically according to the time of day. It’s not quite perfect, and I’ve had to make some tweaks…
Setting Hue defaults – part I
Until recently I hadn’t been making best use of my Hue lights…
A year in Home Assistant
What a difference a year makes. Last weekend I attended the online Home Assistant conference, and it was incredible to see the support and listen to some amazing speakers talk about their home assistant setups.
Fun with AppDaemon
I’m making increasing use of AppDaemon with Home Assistant, as I like the flexibility of using Python to structure my automations. I discussed it a couple of weeks ago and this time I’m going to work through another example…
AppDaemon and when to use it
I’ve mentioned AppDaemon in passing and used it for my ZoneMinder camera automations, but what is it and why would you use it?
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…
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…