READING TIME: 7 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup your Home Energy dashboard, using data pulled in from my Smart Meter Texas energy provider. Not all energy…
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Splitting Up Configuration.yaml in Home Assistant
READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to split up your configuration.yaml file. This will allow you cleanup and organize all of the packages, binary sensors, automations,…
Create Garage Door Status Notifications in Home Assistant
READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to create status notifications to let you know when your garage door is opening, opened, closing, or closed. For reference,…
READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn this guide, I’m going to show you how to add some of your internal-facing servers as sidebar items in Home Assistant. This will allow you to manage and…
A Better Site To Find MDI Icons for Home Assistant
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…
How To Backup Home Assistant Locally using Samba Share Addon
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…
How To Create A Lovelace Restriction Card in Home Assistant
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…
How To Update Peanut Plug Firmware OTA Using Home Assistant
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…
How To Create a Lovelace Battery State Card in Home Assistant
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…
How To Setup Garbage Collection Reminder
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…