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Create Garage Door Status Notifications in Home Assistant

by Danny September 1, 2021
by Danny September 1, 2021

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,…

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iFrame Panels: Add Any App to Home Assistant

by Danny August 31, 2021
by Danny August 31, 2021

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…

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A Better Site To Find MDI Icons for Home Assistant

by Danny August 30, 2021
by Danny August 30, 2021

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…

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Home AssistantIntegrationsSmart Home

How To Backup Home Assistant Locally using Samba Share Addon

by Danny August 30, 2021
by Danny August 30, 2021

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…

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How To Update Peanut Plug Firmware OTA Using Home Assistant

by Danny August 24, 2021
by Danny August 24, 2021

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…

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How To Setup Garbage Collection Reminder

by Danny August 23, 2021
by Danny August 23, 2021

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…

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How to Setup Blue Iris NVR Integration in Home Assistant

by Danny August 18, 2021
by Danny August 18, 2021

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…

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How To Add Additional Cameras to Blue Iris (by copying existing cameras)

by Danny August 18, 2021
by Danny August 18, 2021

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…

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How To Install Home Assistant in Hyper-V

by Danny August 16, 2021
by Danny August 16, 2021

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…

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How to Pair IKEA Remote Control in Home Assistant

by Danny August 16, 2021
by Danny August 16, 2021

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…

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Hey there! I'm Danny, owner and writer of Smart Home Pursuits. I've worked as an IT Manager for 8 years and enjoy using my knowledge to make my smart home "smarter".

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