In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add your favorite football team to Home Assistant via Google Calendar. I’ve posted a similar Upcoming Sports Card guide a while back, but since football season is upon us – I’m going to quickly show you how to create the perfect football Lovelace card. The…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add restrictions to Lovelace Cards to Home Assistant. This will prevent unauthorized Home Assistant users from accessing or changing some of your devices. This Restriction Card is pretty customizable and can be applied to any card of entity. Once setup, a user without access will…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a simple battery level and battery state card in Home Assistant in 2021. To do this, we are using a popular HACS integration called Battery State Card. This card is very customizable. You can change the color of each icon depending on the state…
In 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 Collection. Once this is installed, you’ll be able to receive notifications on garbage day as well as see when the next collection day is schedule in…
In 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 ability to view your camera streams in Home Assistant, along with a bunch of other cool entities to play around with. Let’s get started! Prerequisites Before…
Tautulli is a third-party application that runs alongside your Plex Media Server to monitor various stats. You can see who’s watching what, when and where they watched it, what device they were watching it from, and whether or not a stream is being transcoded or not. Tautulli is pretty awesome, although I can imagine it’d…
Did you know that you can notifications directly from Lovelace? For example, you can send a quick notification letting your family members know that it’s dinner time, you are about to leave, or to turn down the music. I don’t use this feature often, but it can be handy in certain circumstances. So, in this…
In this guide, I’m going to show you a simple automation to set the default theme for all of your devices in Home Assistant. This is a great way to make sure all of your Home Assistant devices follow the same theme. Rather than having to set each theme manually, having an automation automatically switch…
If you find yourself wondering “What is the best Home Assistant Theme in 2023”, then look no further than this guide. In this post, I’ll show show you the top 5 themes I recommend to really take your Home Assistant dashboard to the next level. Themes are very much a personal preference. The themes I…
In this guide, I’m going to show you a few ways you can add a water sensor leak detector card to Home Assistant in a Lovelace card. You can either go simple with an basic entities card, display it as a icon, or my personal favorite – a conditional card that only displays if water…