In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add a “child lock” into the Keymaster integration. Keymaster is a HACS integration that lets you create and manage door access pin codes from within Home Assistant. A “child” lock is basically a lock that uses the exact same pin codes as the your “parent”…
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’m going to show you how to arm or disarm you Home Assistant alarm system on a schedule, directly from Lovelace. This is great, because if you ever want to change the time it arms or disarms, you don’t have to edit your Automations. This also means you don’t have to manually…
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 wondering how to shift YAML code to the left? This is probably one of the most useful commands I’ve ever learned when it comes to Home Assistant administration. Unfortunately, it never occurred to me to simply Google if there was an easier way to format an entire block of code. Six months of…