In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup Octoprint notifications. Rather than constantly checking your printers’ status, what layer it’s on, what temperature your bed or nozzle is, or how much time is remaining – you can configure notifications for these kinds of things instead. Setting up alerts is pretty straightforward with…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to configure Cura with Octoprint. This will add a “Print to Octoprint” button directly inside Cura. This is an awesome timesaving feature – no more needing to download the gcode from Cura and upload to Octoprint for every new 3D print! The entire process takes less than 5…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to add a smart scale to Home Assistant to using an ESP32 board flashed with ESPHOME. The Xiaomi Mi Scale 2 was surprisingly one of the few “smart” scales I found that work well with Home Assistant (except for Withings scale, but those are much more expensive). If…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to configure & integrate the Bond Bridge integration into Home Assistant. Once integrated, you can control your ceiling fan lights, turn the fan on and off, and set the fan speeds. You can then display your fan as dashboard card in Lovelace, create automations to turn them on…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to turn your regular ceiling fan into a wifi-controlled “smart” ceiling fan. To do this, you’ll need to purchase a ceiling fan remote control kit and a Bond Bridge. The ceiling fan remote kit gets wired into your ceiling fan. It comes with an RF remote control, so…
In this guide, I’ll show you everything you need to do to create a Vacuum Control Card in Home Assistant to view or control your robot vacuum and mop. For reference, I am using a Roborock S7 so if you use a different model, some of the options may not work for you (such as…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to convert text-to-speech using Home Assistant. We all know that you can send a custom message using a Home Assistant automation. But, did you know that you can actually download the audio files after the TTS is broadcasted? This simple, free method will show you how to do…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to setup a Home Assistant card using the Steam integration. This will let you view things such as the online status, the title and picture of the currently played game, last online time, and much more. This integration works for both your own Steam account as well as…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create recurring tasks in Home Assistant. For example, if you are looking to keep track of things such as: HVAC filter reminders Salt reminders for water softener Pill Reminder Oil Changes Yearly reminders such as cleaning the gutters, vehicle inspection/renewals Dental/Doctor visit reminders …then this is the…
In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a simple Powershell script that sends a Microsoft Teams notification whenever someone logs into a computer or server. There are a number of reasons you might want to setup a login notification like this. Auditing login/logoff events Monitoring critical servers Keeping an eye on highly-sensitive…
