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 convert text-to-speech using Home Assistant. We all know that you can send a custom message using a Home Assistant automation. But, did you know that you can actually download the audio files after the TTS is broadcasted? This simple, free method will show you how to do…
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…
Trigger ID’s are a relatively new feature to Home Assistant Automations. Trigger ID’s can be used to cut down on the total number of automations you have. However, some of you may not have heard of them or fully understand how powerful they are. So, what ARE trigger ID’s exactly? Let me give you an…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to create an automation that sends a notification whenever one of your Plex users start watching something. This automation was found in this community forum post. This is handy for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it’s neat to just see who is actually utilizing your Plex server. Other…
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…