Smart Home

READING TIME: 2 MINUTESIf you use Home Assistant, then chances are that you are familiar with MDI, or materialdesignicons.com. I’ve always had a lot of issues with the MDI website. Speed being…

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to backup Home Assistant to a file share or mapped network drive using the Samba Backup addon. Specifically, I’m going…

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn 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…

READING TIME: 8 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to update the Peanut Plug firmware over the air (OTA) directly through Home Assistant. Without this upgrade, you won’t be…

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn 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…

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn 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…

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup a Telegram notification bot. Telegram is a fantastic open-source cloud-hosted instant messaging software. It’s used by tens of…

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn 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…

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to add another camera to Blue Iris. Rather than manually configuring each security camera, Blue Iris has a handy “Copy…

READING TIME: 19 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show to how to setup and configure Blue Iris on a Windows Server 2019 computer. Blue Iris is a local NVR security camera…