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Home Assistant Dashboard – Area

February 19, 2022May 6, 2022 No Comments

The area view on my home assistant dashboard gives me quick access to each room or area of the house. The cards on this dashboard have metrics from several different integrations: RTSP Camera Streams from Eufy cameras Ring Alarm, Doorbell, Cameras and various Z-Wave sensors (Door/Window Sensor, Smoke/CO detector, Motion Sensor) TP-link Kasa smart switches […]

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Home Assistant Dashboard – Tesla

February 15, 2022May 24, 2022 No Comments

This Home Assistant dashboard view covers everything related to my car. I’m still amazed at how much data is available through the unofficial Tesla API. This view gives me quick access to everything I want to know about my car and control it remotely. Integrations Tesla Teslamate (Self-hosted data logger) through MQTT NFC Tags MyQ […]

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Home Assistant View - Nursery
Home Assistant Dashboards

Home Assistant Dashboard – Nursery

February 11, 2022May 24, 2022 1 Comment

A whole view dedicated to my daughter and her Nursery. Amazon Alexa Eufy camera Zigbee buttons, temperature, humidity, and motion sensor Tile tracker Attached to the diaper bag or baby stroller Automations Temperature Alert Alert when the temperature in the Nursery is not optimal only if it’s occupied Baby is awake Alert Alert when baby […]

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Home Assistant View - Family
Dashboards Home Assistant

Home Assistant Dashboard – Family

February 9, 2022May 6, 2022 No Comments

Introducing one of my Home Assistant dashboard views – Family. I am starting a new series of “Show and Tell” for some of the views I have created for my Home Assistant dashboard. I had to start with the family view because this is probably the first one I created when I started using HA. […]

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Home Automation - Now (2022)
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Home Automation – Then & Now

February 7, 2022August 22, 2022 No Comments

The state of home automation has come a long way from when I started my home automation journey. This is what I had to do just a few years ago to simply control the lights in my house use an android app called Automate from Llamalab, which listens for “ok google” catchphrase Automate invokes relevant […]

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Home Assistant How-To Guides

My Home Assistant Setup

December 1, 2021May 4, 2022 4 Comments

Although this is a constant work in progress, I am going to try and summarize my home assistant setup. This will hopefully provide an overview of how I have organized the configurations and what custom components I use. My goal for this post is to help anyone get started with basic setup and use my […]

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DIY Home Assistant

Whole House Energy Monitoring

August 29, 2021August 22, 2022 No Comments

I always wanted to have energy monitoring for my house, but I had been putting this off because it seemed so intimidating for obvious reasons. The good news is there is no rewiring needed. I bought an Emporia Vue energy monitor which installs in the home’s electrical panel using CT sensor clamps that go around […]

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Tracking baby’s sleep without wearable

March 12, 2021March 16, 2022 2 Comments

When I became a dad, I wanted to track my daughter’s sleep quality without any intrusive way and without buying any additional trackers. We were already using a Snoo smart sleeper that is a responsive bassinet that adds sleep by responding to a baby’s cries with white noise and motion to soothe fussing. The important […]

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DIY Home Assistant

Creating a DIY Multisensor

July 24, 2020March 16, 2022 No Comments

If you are wondering what this ugly-looking thing is, it’s the multisensor I made using some electronic components I already had from previous DIY projects. As I started getting into the Smart home hobby, I quickly realized how expensive it gets with so many sensors I have to place around the house (e.g. motion, temperature, […]

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Home Assistant Open Source

Multiple Currency Support for Mint.com

October 20, 2019March 16, 2022 No Comments

As I am integrating more and more services I use on the daily basis with Home Assistant, I was a little disappointed that there is no existing integration for my favorite personal finance application. Upon some research, I found out this was something considered for Home Assistant core components but later removed because it had […]

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