In this guide, I’m going to show you a really cool HACS addon called Alarmo. Alarmo is a simple, easy to use home alarm system that lets you set up your own alarm system within Home Assistant – all from a browser! No hardwiring or running wires needed, you can use it with all of…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to quickly and easily track your favorite stocks from within Home Assistant. Whether you are wanting to track GME, AMC, BB, or any of the other meme stocks that are exploding in popularity lately, this is a great way to do right from within Home Assistant….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add your favorite sports team’ schedules to your Google Calendar. Once added, you will then be able to see the upcoming schedule of your team directly within Home Assistant! This will allow you automate the perfect game day around your house. This could allow you…
Over the past few years, I’ve been intrigued by cryptocurrencies. I find the ups, downs, and various forums or news articles very interesting. I’ve even bought, sold, and held several coins myself. To find the prices, I typically would open the Coinbase app, authenticate with 2FA, and then switch to the correct tab to view…
As any good Plex server owner will tell you, one of the most important things you can do is backup your Plex metadata. Ideally, you should be following the 3-2-1 backup rule, where you keep 3 copies of your data, on two different mediums, with one of those being offline/offsite. In the event you Plex…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create your own chore or task tracker within Home Assistant, using only default Home Assistant features – no third-party products or additional addons/integrations are needed. You can optionally assign a point value to each chore, allowing your kids to earn “points” for completing their tasks….
By far one of my most-used Docker images is Mealie, a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Adding new recipes to Mealie is as easy as pasting a URL into the app. Mealie will automatically pull in the ingredients, cooking steps, and images. It’s truly awesome, and I use every single day. One of the…
Did you know you can add a custom image as the background to your self-hosted Homer dashboard? It’s pretty simple and easy to do (you can actually see an example of this on the Homer github page), but just in case you missed this like I did – I’m going to show you how to…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add an internet search bar into your Homer dashboard. This is especially useful if you access Homer from a shortcut on your phone. Rather than having to open a new tab, I can quickly hit the back button to return to my Homer dashboard. Despite…
In this guide, I will show you how to integrate your Google Calendar into Home Assistant in 2021. Once this integration is all setup, you will be able to create some really cool automations and Lovelace cards. A few example automations might be “Turn on light 5 minutes before a meeting starts”, or, you could…
