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How To Add Z-Wave JS to Home Assistant in 2023
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add your z-wave USB stick to…
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Add THIRDREALITY Zigbee Button to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to add a Third Reality 3-button remote to Home…
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Home Assistant Christmas Tree Card
Follow this guide if you'd like to create a Home Assistant 'Christmas tree' card that "lights…
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How To Create WLED Preset Buttons
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create simple Mushroom card buttons that…
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How to Add WLED “Peek” Feature to Home Assistant
In this short guide, I'm going to show you how to add the peek visualizer feature…
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Install Fully-Kiosk + Wallpanel in Home Assistant for Fire Tablets
In this guide, I'll show you how to add your Kindle Fire to Home Assistant using…
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Yes/No Actionable Notification for Home Assistant on Android
In this guide, I'll show you how to create a a Home Assistant actionable notification that…
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Add TeamTracker to Home Assistant for Real-time Sports Scores
In this guide, I'll show you how to install a Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) project…
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DIY $80 3D Printed Nanoleaf WLED Project (No soldering/cutting!)
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to 3D print & wire your own…
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Compact 3D Printer Card Dashboard in Home Assistant
Earlier today I posted a short video of my 3D printer card on Reddit, and you…
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Automatically Turn Off 3D Printer After Print Completes
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a simple automation that will…
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How To Add Sonoff S31 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add your Sonoff S31 Lite smart…
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How to Configure WLED in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to configure your WLED controller and LED…
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Beginner’s Guide to WLED: Hardware Requirements & Setup
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup an LED controller which has…
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Find Hyper-V Hostname of a VM using Powershell
In this simple post, I'll show you how to find the Hyper-V hostname of a virtual…
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Amazon Prime Day Sales! July 12 & 13, 2022
Prime Day 2022 will last for 48 hours, beginning Tuesday, July 12 at 3 a.m. EDT…
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How To Configure Octoprint with Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to integrate OctoPrint in Home Assistant. Octoprint…
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How To Setup Octoprint Notifications with OctoApp Plugin
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup Octoprint notifications. Rather than constantly…
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How to Connect Cura to Octoprint (2022)
In this guide, I'll show you how to configure Cura with Octoprint. This will add a…
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How to add a Xiaomi Mi Scale to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to add a smart scale to Home Assistant to…
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Configure Bond Bridge integration in Home Assistant to Control Ceiling Fans
In this guide, I'll show you how to configure & integrate the Bond Bridge integration into…
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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…
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Super Clean Robot Vacuum+Mop Card for Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you everything you need to do to create a Vacuum Control…
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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…
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How To Create Steam Card in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to setup a Home Assistant card using the Steam…
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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,…
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Send Teams Notification when A User Logs in through RDP
In this short tutorial, I'll show you how to create a simple Powershell script that sends…
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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…
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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…
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How To Use Trigger ID’s in Home Assistant
Trigger ID's are a relatively new feature to Home Assistant Automations. Trigger ID's can be used…
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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…
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Part 4: Roborock S7 Mop Control in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how you can control the mop of your Roborock S7…
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Display Microsoft Teams Presence Status in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to display your Teams presence status in…
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How To Copy Files to Google Drive using Powershell
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to copy (upload) files to Google Drive…
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How to Store Secrets in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to store and use secrets in Home…
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Part 3: Roborock S7 Home Assistant: Automations, Schedules, and Voice Commands
This is part 3/5 of my How To Setup Roborock robot vacuums in Home Assistant guide.…
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Part 2: Roborock S7 Home Assistant: Customize Map Card & Create Zone Automations
In this guide, I'll show you how to add some quality-of-life improvements to your Roborock S7…
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Part 1: How to Setup & Configure Roborock S7 with Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to setup and configure the Roborock S7 in Home…
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How To Install Kimai Time Tracking App in Docker
In this guide, I'll show you how to deploy the open source time tracking app Kimai…
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How To Setup Plex-Automatic-Pre-roll-Gui in Windows
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup and install Plex-Automatic-Preroll-Gui to automate…
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Set Chrome as Default Browser using GPO
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to make Google Chrome the default browser…
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Dynamically Display Lovelace Text Based on Schedule in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to dynamically display a message on your…
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Custom CSS Flame Dashboard
In this guide, I'll show you how to customize your Flame Dashboard by using CSS tweaks.…
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Log4j PDQ Powershell Scanner Setup
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a Powershell Scanner in PDQ…
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How To Delete Chrome Saved Logins using Powershell
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to delete Google Chrome's cached logins using…
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List Hyper-V VM Names using Powershell
In this post, I'm going to show you how to get a list of virtual machine…
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How to install Snippet Box in Docker
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install Snippet Box in a Docker…
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How to Install Flame Dashboard in Docker
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup and install the Flame dashboard…
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Bitwarden Enterprise Offboarding & Permanently Deleting Accounts
At my company, we are in the process of rolling out Bitwarden Enterprise as our corporate…
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How to Block or Allow Firefox Extensions using Group Policy
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a Firefox browser Group Policy…
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How To Install Mail and Packages Integration Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install and setup the Mail and…
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Display SSL Expiry Reminders in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to display the SSL expiration of any…
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Install a Home Assistant Taskbar Menu (Windows)
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install the Home Assistant Taskbar Menu…
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How To Automatically Start Sonarr & Radarr After Reboot (Windows)
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to automatically start Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, NZBGet,…
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How To Install ErsatzTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install ErsatzTV on a Windows Server…
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How To Install DizqueTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install dizqueTV on Windows Server 2019.…
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Create a “Days Until” Sensor in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a Home Assistant "countdown to…
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How To Add A Season Sensor to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add a Season sensor to Home…
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How To Create Animated Backgrounds in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create animated backgrounds in Home Assistant.…
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Powershell Script to Delete Download Folder Contents for All User
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to delete the contents of a users'…
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How To Update Docker Container to Latest Version
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to update one of your docker containers…
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Powershell Script To Find Users NOT in Security Group
In this guide, I'm going to show you a simple Windows Powershell script you can use…
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How to Use Dual Gauge Card in Home Assistant
Have you ever wanted to display multiple values in the same gauge card in Home Assistant?…
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NFC Tags and Home Assistant: Setup & 8 Automation Ideas
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add and use NFC tags in…
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How To Setup Google Calendar Event Notifications in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to configure Google Calendar Event notifications before…
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Add Football Card to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add your favorite football team to…
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How To Add Sengled Zigbee RGB Bulb To Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add a Sengled RGB zigbee smart…
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Add MagicHome LED Controller to Home Assistant
In this guide, I will show you how to add a MagicHome LED controller to Home…
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Energy Dashboard with data from Smart Meter Texas
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup your Home Energy dashboard, using…
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Splitting Up Configuration.yaml in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to split up your configuration.yaml file. This…
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Install Vikunja in Docker for self-hosted Task Tracking
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install Vikunja using Docker-Compose. Vikunja is…
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Create Garage Door Status Notifications in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create status notifications to let you…
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iFrame Panels: Add Any App to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add some of your internal-facing servers…
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A Better Site To Find MDI Icons for Home Assistant
If you use Home Assistant, then chances are that you are familiar with MDI, or materialdesignicons.com.…
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How To Backup Home Assistant Locally using Samba Share Addon
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to backup Home Assistant to a file…
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How To Create A Lovelace Restriction Card in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add restrictions to Lovelace Cards to…
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How To Update Peanut Plug Firmware OTA Using Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to update the Peanut Plug firmware over…
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How To Create a Lovelace Battery State Card in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a simple battery level and…
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How To Setup Garbage Collection Reminder
In this guide, I'll show you how to setup a garbage, trash, or recycling reminder in…
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Run Batch File During Certain Time Window
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to run a batch file during a…
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How To Add Users to the OpenVPN Administrators Group
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add a domain user account to…
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How To Remotely Log Off Specific Users using Powershell
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to remotely log off a specific user…
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How To Send Blue Iris Images to Telegram
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to send motion alerts (analyzed by Deepstack)…
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How To Setup a Telegram Bot
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup a Telegram notification bot. Telegram…
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How to Setup Blue Iris NVR Integration in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to integrate your Blue Iris + Deepstack…
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How To Add Additional Cameras to Blue Iris (by copying existing cameras)
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add another camera to Blue Iris.…
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How to Setup Blue Iris & Deepstack on Windows
In this guide, I'm going to show to how to setup and configure Blue Iris on…
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How To Install Home Assistant in Hyper-V
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install Home Assistant in Hyper-V on…
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How to Pair IKEA Remote Control in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to pair and configure an Ikea Tradfri…
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Edit Active Directory Description field using Powershell
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to edit the AD description field using…
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Enable Bitlocker and Set PIN using Powershell or PDQ Deploy
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to enable bitlocker remotely using Powershell/PDQ Deploy.…
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How To Install Node Red in Docker
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup Node Red in Docker. For…
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How To Add Tautulli To Home Assistant
Tautulli is a third-party application that runs alongside your Plex Media Server to monitor various stats.…
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Send Notifications from Lovelace
Did you know that you can notifications directly from Lovelace? For example, you can send a…
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How to Install AdGuard Home Addon in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup and install AdGuard Home in…
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How to install WireGuard VPN Addon in Home Assistant with custom domain name
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup, configure, and install Wireguard VPN…
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Automatically Switch Themes for All Devices in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you a simple automation to set the default theme…
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Best Home Assistant Themes
If you find yourself wondering "What is the best Home Assistant Theme in 2021", then look…
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Add A Blinking Leak Sensor Card to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you a few ways you can add a water…
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Add a Child Lock to Keymaster in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add a "child lock" into the…
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Add Kwikset 888 to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add a Kwikset 888 smart door…
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Frigate: Enabling Clips and Advanced Object Detection (pt2)
In this guide, we'll be taking our Home Assistant Frigate install to the next level with…
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Edit Home Assistant Config Files in a Browser using VSCode
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup and use the Visual Studio…
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How To Connect to Home Assistant via SSH
In this guide, I'll show you how to access Home Assistant via SSH. While I've personally…
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Edit Home Assistant Config Files From Locally Installed Visual Studio Code
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to access and edit Home Assistant configuration…
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How To Arm/Disarm Alarm on a schedule from Lovelace
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to arm or disarm you Home Assistant…
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How To Install Uptime Kuma in Docker
If you've been looking for a selfhosted server monitoring and uptime detector, look no further than…
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How To Install Frigate in Home Assistant for Object Detection (pt1)
In this guide, I'll be showing you how to setup Frigate in Home Assistant. This is…
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How To Get Home Assistant, Addons, and HACS Update Alerts
Do you want get alerts or notifications Home Assistant has an update? What about getting alerts…
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How to move an entire block of YAML to the left?
Are you wondering how to shift YAML code to the left? This is probably one of…
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How To Create a Birthday Reminder Lovelace Card
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a "Birthday Reminder" card in…
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Display Offline, unavailable, or missing sensors in Home Assistant
In this guide, I will show you how to detect any missing or unavailable entities in…
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How To Monitor Servers in Home Assistant
Are you looking for a simple way to monitor devices on your network using PING (ICMP)…
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Control Roku TV from Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to control your Roku TV directly from…
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Update Azure AD Company Name field using Powershell
Are you trying to update the Azure Active Directory "CompanyName" field using Powershell? Perhaps you already…
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How to Configure Keymaster Notifications
One of the very first HACS integrations I setup was Keymaster, which is an integration that…
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Disarm Alarmo Alarm in Home Assistant Using Actionable Notifications
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to Arm, Disarm, or open your Alarmo…
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How To Setup Alarmo in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you a really cool HACS addon called Alarmo. Alarmo…
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How To Track Stock Prices in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily track your favorite…
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Add “Upcoming Sports” Card to Home Assistant via Google Calendar
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add your favorite sports team' schedules…
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How To Track Crypto Prices in Home Assistant
Over the past few years, I've been intrigued by cryptocurrencies. I find the ups, downs, and…
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How To Automate Plex Metadata Backups
As any good Plex server owner will tell you, one of the most important things you…
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Chore Tracking with Point System in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create your own chore or task…
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Add Mealie’s “Meal of the Day” to Home Assistant
By far one of my most-used Docker images is Mealie, a self-hosted recipe manager and meal…
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Add Image Background to Homer Dashboard
Did you know you can add a custom image as the background to your self-hosted Homer…
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Add Internet Search Bar to Homer Dashboard
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to add an internet search bar into…
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Add Google Calendar to Home Assistant
In this guide, I will show you how to integrate your Google Calendar into Home Assistant…
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Hass Workstation Service: Automatically change desktop Wallpaper Based on Weather
Have you ever thought how cool it would be to if your desktop PC wallpaper automatically…
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Configure RSS Feed in Homer Dashboard with Node Red
Like many selfhosters, having a dashboard to quickly access all of your selfhosted applications is one…
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How To Install SnipeIT In Docker
In this guide, I'm going to show you a quick and easy way to install SnipeIT…
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How To Run VMware Workstation Virtual Machine in the Background
In this guide, I will show you how to run your Vmware Workstation VM in the…
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How To Automatically Connect USB Drives to VMware Workstation On Power On
After spending a few hours migrating Home Assistant from a raspberry pi to VMware Workstation, and…
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How To Install Home Assistant using VMware Workstation
In this guide, I will show you how to migrate Home Assistant from a raspberry pi…
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How To Install Keymaster in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install Keymaster, which is an addon…
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How To Pair Ikea Tradfri Motion Sensor to Home Assistant
In this guide, I will show you how to add an Ikea TRADFRI Wireless Motion sensor…
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How To Deploy Conreq in Docker (Ombi Alternative)
A few months ago on Reddit I came across another promising "content request & discovery" platform…
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How to Setup HASS Workstation Service in Home Assistant
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install HASS Workstation Service in Home…
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How To Install OpenSprinkler in Home Assistant
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to integrate your OpenSprinker smart sprinkler…
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How to Install OpenSprinkler into Existing Sprinkler System
One of the most recent smarthome projects I've worked on was making my sprinkler system "smart".…
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Find Computers Recently Joined To Active Directory
If you've been looking for a Powershell script to find the most recent computers that have…
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How To Find Next Available Computer Name in Powershell
In the IT world, it's common practice to name all of the computers you join to…
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Loaner Laptop Checkout/Checkin Powershell Script
If you work in the IT department, chances are that you loan out laptops to your…
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How to Automatically send IT Welcome emails with Powershell
Whenever a new employee starts at your organization, chances are that you typically send out an…
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How To Move A Computer Object to a Different OU in Powershell
In this guide, you'll learn how to move a computer object from one OU to another.…
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Powershell Script to Generate Pwpush.com Links
In case you haven't heard of or used Password Pusher, or pwpush.com, it is a service…
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Powershell Script to Copy Full VM (.VBK) Backup Files to External Drive (excluding .VIB)
The title is a little wonky, but let me explain. We use Veeam for backups at…
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Powershell Script to Open Multiple URL’s in a Browser
If you're looking for a simple one-line Powershell script to open a webpage (or multiple webpages),…
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Powershell Script to Create New Active Directory User
For the longest time, part of our user onboarding process was to manually create user accounts…
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How to Create a Powershell Menu GUI
In this guide, I'm going to show you an incredibly simple way to create a menu…
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How To Export LAPS Passwords from Active Directory with Powershell
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to export the LAPS passwords from Active…
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How to Setup “Plex Assistant” in Home Assistant To Cast Plex Media Using Your Voice
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to setup Plex Assistant, which is a…
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How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to install Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker…
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How To Automatically Backup Home Assistant to Google Drive
In this guide, I'll show you how to automatically create Home Assistant backups and save them…
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How To Add Ecolink Wireless Audio Detector to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to add an Ecolink Wireless Audio Detector to Home…
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The Ultimate SmartThings to Home Assistant Migration Guide
With all of the SmartThings issues I've been hearing about lately, I thought now would be…
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How To Add Aqara Devices to Home Assistant in 2021
In this guide, I'll show you how to add Xiaomi Aqara devices to Home Assistant in…
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How To Install Mealie in Docker
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. It has a beautiful UI, is easy…
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How To Add Securifi Zigbee Peanut Plugs to Home Assistant
In this guide, I'll show you how to quickly add your Securifi Peanut smart plugs to…
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How to Install Portainer with Docker in Ubuntu 20.04
This tutorial will show you how to install Portainer with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Overall, you…
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How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04
If you're looking for a simple step-by-step guide to install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 in 2021,…
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How To Add SmartThings Water Sensor to Home Assistant
Are you looking for a step-by-step guide to add your SmartThings Water Sensor to Home Assistant…
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How to Deploy Bookstack in Docker-Compose using Portainer
Are you interested in self-hosting a Bookstack wiki using Docker? If so, look no further than…
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How to Add SmartThings Multipurpose Sensors to Home Assistant
Are you in the process of migrating from SmartThings to Home Assistant? If so, then you…
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How to add Schlage Connect to Home Assistant
After many hours, and reading through tons of forums posts - I was finally able to…
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How to Add SmartThings Motion Sensor to Home Assistant
Are you looking for a simple guide to add a SmartThings motion sensor to Home Assistant…
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How to Add SmartThings Button to Home Assistant
If you're in the process of migrating from SmartThings to Home Assistant, then you probably have…
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How to Add Z-Wave & Zigbee to Home Assistant
Looking for a simple step by step guide for adding z-wave and zigbee to Home Assistant…
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How to Deploy Adguard Home Docker in Ubuntu 20.04
Are you looking for a step by step guide to deploy Adguard Home in Docker? If…
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How to Configure MyQ in Home Assistant
Looking to integrate your MyQ Chamberlain garage door open into Home Assistant? If so, this step…
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How to Configure Ecobee Thermostat in Home Assistant
Wondering how to setup your Ecobee thermostat into Home Assistant? This step by step will walk…
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How To Pair Xiaomi Aqara Door/Window Sensors with SmartThings
Are you in the market for an alternative to the SmartThings multipurpose sensor? If so, you…
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Configure Homer Dashboard in Docker, Docker-Compose or Python
On my quest to find the perfect self-hosted dashboard, I came across an amazing dashboard called…
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How To Setup Overseerr in Docker (Ombi Alternative)
Yesterday on Reddit, I came across an awesome Ombi alternative that allows your Plex users to…
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Configure Plex Automatic Prerolls on Windows
Have you ever wanted to randomize your Plex movie pre-rolls? How about schedule Thanksgiving prerolls in…
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How To Enable Photo Viewer on Windows Server 2016 or 2019
I'm in the middle of migrating my Plex media server from my daily driver Windows 10…
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PS4/PS5 Remote Play Wireless Controller Tutorial (Bluetooth to PC)
Want to wirelessly use your DS4 controller Windows 10 computer using Remote Play? If so, then…
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How To Limit Bandwidth in PfSense
Are you a PfSense user? Interested in setting up a firewall rule to "limit" the amount…
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How to Setup Windows 10 “Toast Notifications” for Sonarr
One of the things I love about Sonarr is that everything just works. You add a…
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Configure Watchdog 15 Temperature Sensor in PRTG using SNMP
Chances are that if you are reading this article, you have purchased a Geist Watchdog 15…
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How To Reboot Raspberry Pi On A Schedule
Are you looking for the quickest and easiest way to reboot your raspberry pi nightly? If…
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Best Plex Downloader: How To Download Media From Shared Plex Library
Before I get started with this guide, I wanted to preface this by saying: PLEASE DO…
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Play Custom Audio Through Google Home Speakers Using SmartThings Automations
In my last post, I walked you through how to add Google Home devices into SmartThings…
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How To Create SmartThings Voice Automations using Google Home
Have you ever wanted your Google Home devices to announce when a door was opened, doorbell…
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How To Integrate Duo 2FA Into OpenVPN
This guide will show you how to configure Duo Security into OpenVPN Community Open Source Project.…
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Best Siren for SmartThings
Sometimes, phone notifications just don't cut it. For example, if an intruder breaks into your home…
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SmartThings Garage Door Opener integration with MyQ
While smart garage door openers are already "smart", there's always room for improvement. For example, wouldn't…
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Does SimpliSafe Work with Smartthings?
If you're someone who owns SimpliSafe smart home security products, then you may have been wondering:…
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Create PDQ Inventory Report to Show Local Admins
PDQ Inventory is an awesome tool for system administrators. I constantly amazed at the amount of…
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How to Stop “Can’t Update Chromium” Message on Raspberry PI
Chances are if you're reading this guide, then you're experiencing a pretty annoying bug with your…
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Setting up Dashmachine v0.7 Without Code Editor Integration
For those of you not in the selfhosted/Dashmachine subreddits, Dashmachine v0.7 was released about a week…
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Will A Smart TV Work Without An Internet Connection?
One of the most common smart home items people have in 2021 is a smart TV.…
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How To Add Pihole inside iFrame of Organizr
If you're anything like me, once you've setup Organizr on your computer to manage all of…
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How To Access Tautulli Remotely
If you're racking your brain trying to figure out how to access Tautulli remotely, you're in…
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The Ultimate Organizr V2 Setup Guide for Windows
If you're reading this article, there's a good chance you have software like Plex, Sonarr, Tautulli,…
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Chrome Extension Checker for PDQ Deploy
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to create a PDQ Deploy sequence to…
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How To install Webmin On Raspberry Pi OS (For Remote Administration)
In this Raspberry Pi Webmin guide, I'm going to show you how to setup and install…
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How To Disable Sleep on Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi's are powerful little devices. They are often used as "dashboard" devices for server monitoring,…
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How To Open Website On Startup with a Raspberry Pi
Want to automatically launch a full-screen Chrome browser on your Raspberry Pi after it reboots? If…
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Does TP Link Work With SmartThings?
If you’re one of many people who own a Kasa TP Link smart device and have…
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Does Wemo Work With SmartThings?
With so many different smarthome brands, finding compatible with Samsung SmartThings hubs ones aren't always easy.…
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