How To Make A “Dumb” Ceiling Fan Smart with Bond Bridge
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How To Make A “Dumb” Ceiling Fan Smart with Bond Bridge

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…

Convert Text to Speech using Home Assistant & Download Recordings
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Convert Text to Speech using Home Assistant & Download Recordings

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…

Create Recurring Tasks in Home Assistant
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Create Recurring Tasks in Home Assistant

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…

How To Create a Mushroom Card Grid Dashboard in Home Assistant
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How To Create a Mushroom Card Grid Dashboard in Home Assistant

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…

Part 5: Roborock S7: Sequentially Vacuuming Rooms in Home Assistant
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Part 5: Roborock S7: Sequentially Vacuuming Rooms in Home Assistant

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…

Simple Home Assistant Notification when Plex is Playing
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Simple Home Assistant Notification when Plex is Playing

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…