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…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install and configure a beautiful dashboard using Mushroom Cards. After I show you some of the example cards, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful nested grid Lovelace dashboard. What are “Mushroom Cards”? Mushroom Cards is a minimalistic, beautiful set of cards you can…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create an automation that will sequentially (asynchronously) vacuum rooms in Home Assistant. If you’ve been following along with my Roborock S7 Series, then you’ll know I created individual scripts that correspond to each room of my house. script.vacuum_office script.vacuum_kitchen script.vacuum_living_room etc Roborock S7 Vacuum in…
Trigger ID’s are a relatively new feature to Home Assistant Automations. Trigger ID’s can be used to cut down on the total number of automations you have. However, some of you may not have heard of them or fully understand how powerful they are. So, what ARE trigger ID’s exactly? Let me give you an…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create an automation that sends a notification whenever one of your Plex users start watching something. This automation was found in this community forum post. This is handy for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it’s neat to just see who is actually utilizing your Plex server. Other…
In this guide, I’ll show you how you can control the mop of your Roborock S7 vacuum/mop in Home Assistant. That’s right – it IS possible! Chances are that if you have a Roborock S7, you were as sad as I was to hear that you can only control the vacuum in Home Assistant, not…
In 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 certain advantages/disadvantages with restrictions for each method, but I’ve found Option 2 below to be the easiest to setup. Displaying your Teams status (Busy, Available, Do…
In 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 process of moving items to the cloud for backup and retention purposes. On my home server, I have a storage array specifically for backups (R:\) I…
In 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 and sensitive information from your main configuration.yaml file. The process to set this up is very similar to splitting up your configuration file. Before I show…