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…
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…
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…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add your z-wave USB stick to Home Assistant in 2023. I run Home Assistant in VMWare Player, so in order for the dongle to show up in Home Assistant, there’s a prerequisite step you’ll need to follow. But, if you don’t run yours in a…
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…
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…