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Add Google Calendar to Home Assistant

by Danny May 27, 2021
by Danny May 27, 2021

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn this guide, I will show you how to integrate your Google Calendar into Home Assistant in 2021. Once this integration is all setup, you will be able to…

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Hass Workstation Service: Automatically change desktop Wallpaper Based on Weather

by Danny May 18, 2021
by Danny May 18, 2021

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESHave you ever thought how cool it would be to if your desktop PC wallpaper automatically changed based on the weather outside? For example, if it was raining, the…

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How To Run VMware Workstation Virtual Machine in the Background

by Danny April 6, 2021
by Danny April 6, 2021

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn this guide, I will show you how to run your Vmware Workstation VM in the background and automatically after reboot, using either a batch file in the Startup…

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How To Automatically Connect USB Drives to VMware Workstation On Power On

by Danny April 6, 2021
by Danny April 6, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESAfter spending a few hours migrating Home Assistant from a raspberry pi to VMware Workstation, and passing the my Nortek GoControl USB dongle successfully from my Windows 10 PC…

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How To Install Home Assistant using VMware Workstation

by Danny April 5, 2021
by Danny April 5, 2021

READING TIME: 8 MINUTESIn this guide, I will show you how to migrate Home Assistant from a raspberry pi to VMWare Workstation 16 Player. Or, if you don’t have Home Assistant installed…

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How To Install Keymaster in Home Assistant

by Danny April 1, 2021
by Danny April 1, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Keymaster, which is an addon for Home Assistant that lets you add new door programming codes to your…

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How To Pair Ikea Tradfri Motion Sensor to Home Assistant

by Danny March 31, 2021
by Danny March 31, 2021

READING TIME: 3 MINUTESIn this guide, I will show you how to add an Ikea TRADFRI Wireless Motion sensor to Home Assistant in 2021. This device uses the Zigbee prototcol, not zwave,…

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How to Setup HASS Workstation Service in Home Assistant

by Danny March 30, 2021
by Danny March 30, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to install HASS Workstation Service in Home Assistant. HASS Workstation Service is an application that lets you use use Home…

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How To Install OpenSprinkler in Home Assistant

by Danny March 25, 2021
by Danny March 25, 2021

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn this tutorial, I am going to show you how to integrate your OpenSprinker smart sprinkler system into Home Assistant. By the end of this guide, you will be…

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How to Install OpenSprinkler into Existing Sprinkler System

by Danny March 24, 2021
by Danny March 24, 2021

READING TIME: 7 MINUTESOne of the most recent smarthome projects I’ve worked on was making my sprinkler system “smart”. After doing some research, I stumbled across an open source project called OpenSprinkler.…

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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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