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 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 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’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’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’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 install Snippet Box in a Docker container. Snippet Box is an application that lets you organize your code snippets. You can add things docker-compose configs, Powershell scripts, batch files you run, your Homer dashboard configuration, or any other snippets of code you’d like to store…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install the Flame dashboard in a Docker container. Flame is a simple, minimalistic self-hosted startpage. It’s very customizable – you can change the theme, add or remove sites from the GUI, upload custom icons, and even display the weather! It’s easy to setup…