Home Assistant

READING TIME: 13 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to create your own chore or task tracker within Home Assistant, using only default Home Assistant features – no third-party…

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESBy far one of my most-used Docker images is Mealie, a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Adding new recipes to Mealie is as easy as pasting a URL…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…