In 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 from another camera” feature, which will copy the existing settings of one camera and apply it to a 2nd one. This is a super easy to…
In 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 software. With one of the latest updates in early 2021, you can optionally turn on object detection using Deepstack integration. Blue Iris is extremely powerful and…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Home Assistant in Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2019 host. The Home Assistant team has already provided a pre-configured image for us to use, so creating this is really simple to get up and running. You can probably have this created from start to…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to pair and configure an Ikea Tradfri 5 button remote control with Home Assistant. You may see on the Amazon listing that this button requires the Ikea hub, but that’s not true. As long as you have a zigbee dongle (like the Nortek GoControl I’m using),…
Tautulli is a third-party application that runs alongside your Plex Media Server to monitor various stats. You can see who’s watching what, when and where they watched it, what device they were watching it from, and whether or not a stream is being transcoded or not. Tautulli is pretty awesome, although I can imagine it’d…
Did you know that you can notifications directly from Lovelace? For example, you can send a quick notification letting your family members know that it’s dinner time, you are about to leave, or to turn down the music. I don’t use this feature often, but it can be handy in certain circumstances. So, in this…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install AdGuard Home in Home Assistant. This will allow you to use your Home Assistant instance as your AdGuard server. It’s important to point out that you don’t need to use the AdGuard Addon in Home Assistant to pull your AdGuard Home stats…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup, configure, and install Wireguard VPN in Home Assistant using a custom domain name. This will allow you to not only access Home Assistant remotely, but also all of your other internal sites and services. Things like security cameras, dashboards, or services like Sonarr and…
In this guide, I’m going to show you a simple automation to set the default theme for all of your devices in Home Assistant. This is a great way to make sure all of your Home Assistant devices follow the same theme. Rather than having to set each theme manually, having an automation automatically switch…
If you find yourself wondering “What is the best Home Assistant Theme in 2023”, then look no further than this guide. In this post, I’ll show show you the top 5 themes I recommend to really take your Home Assistant dashboard to the next level. Themes are very much a personal preference. The themes I…