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’ll show you how you can control the mop of your Roborock S7 vacuum/mop in Home Assistant. That’s right – it IS possible! Chances are that if you have a Roborock S7, you were as sad as I was to hear that you can only control the vacuum in Home Assistant, not…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to display your Teams presence status in Home Assistant. There are a few ways to configure this. Each method has certain advantages/disadvantages with restrictions for each method, but I’ve found Option 2 below to be the easiest to setup. Displaying your Teams status (Busy, Available, Do…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to store and use secrets in Home Assistant. By using the secrets.yaml file, you can remove all of your personal and sensitive information from your main configuration.yaml file. The process to set this up is very similar to splitting up your configuration file. Before I show…
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’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’m going to show you how to install and setup the Mail and Packages integration in Home Assistant. This integration will show a snapshot of mail and/or packages that are scheduled to arrive on a current day. It can even show a rotating gif of images (if those are provided by the…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install the Home Assistant Taskbar Menu client for Windows 10, 11, or Server 2019. This program allows you to control entities, display your entire Lovelace dashboard, run automations, call scripts, and even shows Home Assistant Persistent notifications directly on your desktop. While I typically run…