In this guide, I’m going to show you how to configure your WLED controller and LED light strip into Home Assistant. This will allow you create some really cool automations, schedule presets, toggle on or off, change the colors, and much more from – directly from Home Assistant instead of the WLED web interface. Prerequisites…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to add a smart scale to Home Assistant to using an ESP32 board flashed with ESPHOME. The Xiaomi Mi Scale 2 was surprisingly one of the few “smart” scales I found that work well with Home Assistant (except for Withings scale, but those are much more expensive). If…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to configure & integrate the Bond Bridge integration into Home Assistant. Once integrated, you can control your ceiling fan lights, turn the fan on and off, and set the fan speeds. You can then display your fan as dashboard card in Lovelace, create automations to turn them on…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to turn your regular ceiling fan into a wifi-controlled “smart” ceiling fan. To do this, you’ll need to purchase a ceiling fan remote control kit and a Bond Bridge. The ceiling fan remote kit gets wired into your ceiling fan. It comes with an RF remote control, so…
In this guide, I’ll show you everything you need to do to create a Vacuum Control Card in Home Assistant to view or control your robot vacuum and mop. For reference, I am using a Roborock S7 so if you use a different model, some of the options may not work for you (such as…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to setup a Home Assistant card using the Steam integration. This will let you view things such as the online status, the title and picture of the currently played game, last online time, and much more. This integration works for both your own Steam account as well as…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create recurring tasks in Home Assistant. For example, if you are looking to keep track of things such as: HVAC filter reminders Salt reminders for water softener Pill Reminder Oil Changes Yearly reminders such as cleaning the gutters, vehicle inspection/renewals Dental/Doctor visit reminders …then this is the…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install and configure a beautiful dashboard using Mushroom Cards. After I show you some of the example cards, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful nested grid Lovelace dashboard. What are “Mushroom Cards”? Mushroom Cards is a minimalistic, beautiful set of cards you can…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create an automation that will sequentially (asynchronously) vacuum rooms in Home Assistant. If you’ve been following along with my Roborock S7 Series, then you’ll know I created individual scripts that correspond to each room of my house. script.vacuum_office script.vacuum_kitchen script.vacuum_living_room etc Roborock S7 Vacuum in…
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…