Smart Home Stickers to Label Your Plugs, Switches, & NFC tags
| | | |

Smart Home Stickers to Label Your Plugs, Switches, & NFC tags

Picture this. You’ve just spent the last few weeks working on your smart home setup. Whether that be Home Assistant, SmartThings, Hubitat, or any wifi-controlled devices you may own. Things are finally just working. As you set things up, you instruct your family on what each switch or button. You: “This switch toggles the ceiling…

Updated Mushroom Vacuum Card for Home Assistant
| | |

Updated Mushroom Vacuum Card for Home Assistant

Last year I created a really cool compact vacuum and mop card. It used a lot of custom:button-card, but since I’ve switched my dashboards over to Mushroom, I wanted to update this card as well. Here’s what I came up with. Prerequisites First, you need to grab the coordinates of each room and put those…

Updated Mushroom 3D Printer Card in Home Assistant
| | | |

Updated Mushroom 3D Printer Card in Home Assistant

A few months ago I posted my compact 3D printer card. You guys seemed to really like it so I decided to post my updated version now that I’ve since switched to Mushroom. Changes I’m now using the Octoprint MQTT integration to expose even more entities. (Still using the default Octoprint integration – but only to Resume…

Add THIRDREALITY Zigbee Button to Home Assistant
| |

Add THIRDREALITY Zigbee Button to Home Assistant

In this guide, I’ll show you how to add a Third Reality 3-button remote to Home Assistant using ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation). I don’t know about you, but I sometimes just check Amazon for products to add to my smart home. Sometimes it’s to see what other products are available that might perform better than…

Install Fully-Kiosk + Wallpanel in Home Assistant for Fire Tablets
| | |

Install Fully-Kiosk + Wallpanel in Home Assistant for Fire Tablets

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…

Yes/No Actionable Notification for Home Assistant on Android
| |

Yes/No Actionable Notification for Home Assistant on Android

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…

Add TeamTracker to Home Assistant for Real-time Sports Scores
| | |

Add TeamTracker to Home Assistant for Real-time Sports Scores

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…

DIY $80 3D Printed Nanoleaf WLED Project (No soldering/cutting!)
| | |

DIY $80 3D Printed Nanoleaf WLED Project (No soldering/cutting!)

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…

Compact 3D Printer Card Dashboard in Home Assistant
| | | | | |

Compact 3D Printer Card Dashboard in Home Assistant

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…