In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add a Season sensor to Home Assistant. This sensor will display the current astrological or meteorological season. This is a built-in Home Assistant sensor that is not enabled by default, but it’s super easy to add and only takes a couple seasons. The season sensor…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create animated backgrounds in Home Assistant. Most Lovelace dashboards have a default color set by the theme you’ve chosen. If you want to spice up your dashboards a little, you can follow this tutorial to set your backgrounds based on an entity. For example, if…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to delete the contents of a users’ Downloads folder using a simple Powershell script. This script is especially useful to use on a Windows Server 2019 Terminal Server or rdweb host server. Understandably, running a script across all users on a server can be scary, so…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to update one of your docker containers to the latest version in just a few short steps. For this guide, I’m going to be updating my Homer dashboard to take advantage of the the PING feature, which displays a round circle if the service is reachable…
In this guide, I’m going to show you a simple Windows Powershell script you can use to find users that are NOT part of an Active Directory security group. This can be extremely useful in a number of situations. For example, if you are rolling out a Active Directory lockout policy and adding it employees…
Have you ever wanted to display multiple values in the same gauge card in Home Assistant? With the Dual Gauge card, you can! This is a great way to compare similar stats between two entities within the same card. During my testing I was only able to get green, blue, white, grey, and yellow to…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add and use NFC tags in Home Assistant. Once you purchase a few NFC tags or stickers, you can do all sorts of things with such as unlock doors, turn on lights, run automations, and much more. I’ll include a few ways I use NFC…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to configure Google Calendar Event notifications before an event starts in Home Assistant. This setup can get pretty complex and largely dependent on your own personal use case, so I’m just going to go over the basic usage in this guide, but there’s more info the…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add your favorite football team to Home Assistant via Google Calendar. I’ve posted a similar Upcoming Sports Card guide a while back, but since football season is upon us – I’m going to quickly show you how to create the perfect football Lovelace card. The…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add a Sengled RGB zigbee smart light bulb to Home Assistant. The pairing process for these bulbs is super easy and can be completed in just a few seconds. I have a bunch of these bulbs around my smart home and have been using them…
