All things Geeky
Another one of my favorite views from the Home Assistant dashboard – Media Center. One view to cover all media players in the house. Some virtual sensors track TV hours, individual streaming apps usage, plex users, etc. Integrations Apple TV 4K Android TV Spotify Sonos Echo devices as Alexa media players Plex Media Server Meural […]
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 […]
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 Automations Check out my other posts in the Show and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
This project is a journey from an idea to a working prototype. When I started this project in 2017 with just a simple idea, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it’s been such a fun learning experience for me. Prototype This is how it started in 2017. I started with […]
Although this is a constant work in progress, I will 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 a basic setup and use my other […]
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 […]
This post continues from my first post on reverse engineering a private API. In the previous post I explained how I had to jailbreak my iPhone to bypass SSL pinning used by the mobile app for secure communication with its server. I was so excited to finally get everything working and see the HTTPS network […]
