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Hey there! I'm Danny, owner and writer of Smart Home Pursuits. I've worked as an IT Manager for 8 years and enjoy using my knowledge to make my smart home "smarter".

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Display Microsoft Teams Presence Status in Home Assistant

by Danny January 19, 2022
by Danny January 19, 2022

READING TIME: 11 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to display your Teams presence status in Home Assistant. There are a few ways to configure this. Each method has…

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How To Copy Files to Google Drive using Powershell

by Danny January 19, 2022
by Danny January 19, 2022

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to copy (upload) files to Google Drive using a simple Powershell script. This is a great way to automate the…

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How to Store Secrets in Home Assistant

by Danny January 11, 2022
by Danny January 11, 2022

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to store and use secrets in Home Assistant. By using the secrets.yaml file, you can remove all of your personal…

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Part 3: Roborock S7 Home Assistant: Automations, Schedules, and Voice Commands

by Danny January 5, 2022
by Danny January 5, 2022

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESThis is part 3/5 of my How To Setup Roborock robot vacuums in Home Assistant guide. In Part 1, I’ve shown you how to: Initially vacuum setup your Roborock…

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Part 2: Roborock S7 Home Assistant: Customize Map Card & Create Zone Automations

by Danny December 30, 2021
by Danny December 30, 2021

READING TIME: 12 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to add some quality-of-life improvements to your Roborock S7 integration in Home Assistant. In Part 1, I’ve shown you how to: Unbox and…

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Part 1: How to Setup & Configure Roborock S7 with Home Assistant

by Danny December 29, 2021
by Danny December 29, 2021

READING TIME: 9 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to setup and configure the Roborock S7 in Home Assistant. The Roborock S7 is easily one of the best robot vacuum/mop combo’s…

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How To Install Kimai Time Tracking App in Docker

by Danny December 27, 2021
by Danny December 27, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy the open source time tracking app Kimai in a Docker container. Kimai is free, browser-based (so it’ll work on mobile…

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How To Setup Plex-Automatic-Pre-roll-Gui in Windows

by Danny December 21, 2021
by Danny December 21, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install Plex-Automatic-Preroll-Gui to automate the prerolls that play before you start a Plex movie. If this sounds…

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Set Chrome as Default Browser using GPO

by Danny December 20, 2021
by Danny December 20, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to make Google Chrome the default browser using Group Policy (GPO). This guide applies to Windows Server 2012,2016,2019, 2022 as…

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Dynamically Display Lovelace Text Based on Schedule in Home Assistant

by Danny December 19, 2021
by Danny December 19, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to dynamically display a message on your Home Assistant dashboards. This will allow you set dynamic reminders for things around…

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