In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add a Kwikset 888 smart door lock to Home Assistant. Once added, you will be able to lock or unlock the door, view the door status, view battery level, and determine whether or not the door lock is open or closed – all from within…
In this guide, we’ll be taking our Home Assistant Frigate install to the next level with advanced object detection. We will be playing around with Masks and Zones, configuring Frigate to detect specific objects (such as dogs or vehicles), and enabling the snapshots and clips feature to save locally or to a network share. Let’s…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and use the Visual Studio Code Community Addon to use VSCode directly from your Home Assistant web interface. This will completely eliminate the need to use File Editor to edit your configuration.yaml file. To access Home Assistant from a locally installed version of Visual…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to access Home Assistant via SSH. While I’ve personally never had the need for this, there are some instances where remote SSH access may be needed. So, this tutorial I will walk you through the process. Let’s get started! Step 1: Enable SSH Access Click your profile in…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to access and edit Home Assistant configuration files from Visual Studio Code (installed locally on your computer). To do this, we are installing the Samba Share addon, installing the Home Assistant Config Helper extension in VSCode, and then opening the Samba share from VSCode. This guide…
In this guide, I’ll be showing you how to setup Frigate in Home Assistant. This is the first truly step-by-step Frigate install guide that I’ve found (other than a 42 minute long EverythingSmartHome video, which is fantastic). So, for those of you who’d prefer to install Frigate by reading a written tutorial instead of a…
Do you want get alerts or notifications Home Assistant has an update? What about getting alerts when an HACS integration has an update? In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how to do that. If getting update notifications and alerts isn’t your thing, I will also show you how to put that information into a…
Are you looking for a simple way to monitor devices on your network using PING (ICMP) from within Home Assistant? Maybe you are looking to create automations based on whether or not a device is online, comes online, or a website goes down. You can also use this as a presence detection or device tracker…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to control your Roku TV directly from Home Assistant. This setup will allow you to adjust your Roku TV volume, change sources, navigate up, down, left right, or even create smart TV “shortcuts” to apps you use all the time, such as Plex or Netflix. To…
One of the very first HACS integrations I setup was Keymaster, which is an integration that allows me to set door pin codes for my Schlage Be469 zwave lock from within Home Assistant. At the time, I was very new to Home Assistant and couldn’t figure out how to enable notifications. I recently revisited this…