In this guide, I’ll show you how to add your Kindle Fire to Home Assistant using Fully-Kiosk browser. I’m then using the Wallpanel integration to set a screensaver slideshow, and am using an external motion detector to turn off the screensaver when someone walks up to the tablet. This setup works really well (much better…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create a a Home Assistant actionable notification that prompts you to perform an action (click yes or no) from a push notification. Depending on what option you choose, a different action is performed. Use Case My use is as follows: I’ve added an NFC tag to Home…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to install a Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) project called TeamTracker. This guide consists of both an integration called TeamTracker and a corresponding TeamTracker Card that can be added to your dashboards. What is TeamTracker exactly? This awesome integration lets you pull in and display real-time sports scores…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to 3D print & wire your own “Nanoleaf” LED hexagon panels. Printing these yourself saves yourself SO much money. On the Nanoleaf website, a 7-panel kit will cost you $200. A 16-piece kit costs $410! Assuming you already have filament, being able to print your own…
Earlier today I posted a short video of my 3D printer card on Reddit, and you guys loved it so much that you voted it to the #1 spot in the /r/HomeAssistant subreddit. A lot of you were asking for the YAML or how I created this, so I’m going to share everything I did…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a simple automation that will turn off your 3D printer once a print job has completed. Not only is this super handy for energy/power consumption, but it’s also a safety feature – especially if you tend to print things overnight or when you are…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add your Sonoff S31 Lite smart plug to Home Assistant. This plug uses the Zigbee protocol, so by default it can be picked up by Home Assistant. I was able to pair mine using the Zigbee Home Automation (ZHA) integration from my Nortek zigbee/z-wave dongle….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to configure your WLED controller and LED light strip into Home Assistant. This will allow you create some really cool automations, schedule presets, toggle on or off, change the colors, and much more from – directly from Home Assistant instead of the WLED web interface. Prerequisites…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup an LED controller which has been pre-flashed with WLED. I will also show you the exact hardware I’m using, how to wire the LED light strip to the controller, and how to initially setup your controller. After everything is setup, you can optionally add…
In this simple post, I’ll show you how to find the Hyper-V hostname of a virtual machine. This would be useful for finding out which host a particular VM is running on. There are a number of ways to do this. For example, adding the host to Hyper-V Manager would probably be the easiest method….