Integrations

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to create status notifications to let you know when your garage door is opening, opened, closing, or closed. For reference,…

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to add some of your internal-facing servers as sidebar items in Home Assistant. This will allow you to manage and…

READING TIME: 2 MINUTESIf you use Home Assistant, then chances are that you are familiar with MDI, or materialdesignicons.com. I’ve always had a lot of issues with the MDI website. Speed being…

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to backup Home Assistant to a file share or mapped network drive using the Samba Backup addon. Specifically, I’m going…

READING TIME: 8 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to update the Peanut Plug firmware over the air (OTA) directly through Home Assistant. Without this upgrade, you won’t be…

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn this guide, I’ll show you how to setup a garbage, trash, or recycling reminder in Home Assistant. To do this, we are installing a HACS integration called Garbage…

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to integrate your Blue Iris + Deepstack local NVR security camera software into Home Assistant. Once integrated, you’ll have the…

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to add another camera to Blue Iris. Rather than manually configuring each security camera, Blue Iris has a handy “Copy…

READING TIME: 8 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Home Assistant in Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2019 host. The Home Assistant team has already provided a…

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to pair and configure an Ikea Tradfri 5 button remote control with Home Assistant. You may see on the Amazon…