This 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 S7 Connect to MiHome App Extract the token (for use with a Lovelace card) Added Roborock S7 to Home Assistant Added the Xiaomi Lovelace cards for…
In 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 setup your Roborock S7 vacuum cleaner Connect it to your MiHome App Extract the cloud token Add Roborock S7 integration to Home Assistant Create a few Lovelace…
In 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 for Home Assistant in 2021/2022. I won’t go into all the features, but a full list is available on their Amazon product page. Once it’s setup…
In 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 devices), and is extremely flexible for just about every use case. It has a stopwatch feature where you can start/stop/pause a worklog timer. Then, it accumulates…
In 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 familiar, it’s because I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to do this last year. However, the developer JUST released a new version which now includes…
In 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 well as Windows 8/10/11. To do this, there are several steps you’ll need to do. It’s not as simple as just creating a GPO and applying…
In 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 the house – chores, tasks, anniversaries, etc. The need for this arose because I am using my Chore Tracker to track my kids chores. Every time…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to customize your Flame Dashboard by using CSS tweaks. This will allow you to change font sizes, hover colors, number of rows, custom background images, and much more. If you haven’t set up your Flame dashboard yet, follow my How To Install Flame Dashboard in Docker guide. You…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a Powershell Scanner in PDQ Inventory that report if the Log4j / Log4Shell exploit is found on any vulnerable endpoints on your network. Full disclosure, I didn’t create this scanner and want to credit this Reddit post for posting it. However, I know a…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to delete Google Chrome’s cached logins using Powershell. I will also show you how to delete the Microsoft Edge cache of saved credentials as the process is very similar. To do this, I am using a combination of Powershell and pushing it out with PDQ Deploy….