Google travel time in Home Assistant
Google Now is pretty clever at showing you the information you need when you need it, but it’s far from perfect…
Posts tagged "Automation"
Fixing a smart light problem
If you have smart light bulbs, such as Philips Hue, you’ve probably noticed one little problem…
Cheap and cheerful doorbell automation
What do you do if you want to know if someone rings your doorbell when you’re not home? Well, you could buy the Ring Video Doorbell if you want an all singing, all dancing solution…
Oregon Scientific Weather sensors in Home Assistant
The only trouble with getting the RFXtrx 433MHz transceiver is that it tempted me to look for other devices to use with it…
433MHz plug sockets in Home Assistant
In my RFXtrx review I mentioned the Maplin remote control plug sockets and now I’m going to run through getting them set up in Home Assistant…
RFXtrx Review
A little while ago I wrote about the various ways in which smart home devices can communicate, and now I’m looking at 433Mhz devices…
My first Home Assistant custom component
Last time I looked at the InfluxDB component in Home Assistant, and today I’m going to look at using a custom component to get finer control…
InfluxDB with Home Assistant
When I completed my SmartThings to Home Assistant migration I forgot one little thing – my InfluxDB integration…
SmartThings to HomeAssistant loose ends
The final step of my migration from SmartThings to HomeAssistant is to tidy up a few loose ends by implementing some automations I had set up in SmartThings…
Alarms with HomeAssistant
So you’ve got door sensors that tell you when a door is opened – the next logical step is to set up an alarm that will notify you if a door opens when you’re out…