Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform championed by the Open Home Foundation that prioritizes privacy, choice, and sustainability, letting you locally control and automate your devices to create the most innovative smart home you can dream of.
This blog is for those people whose daily job is IT-related (DevOps, developers, system administrators, etc) and who are using Home Assistant at home. If you fit that description, you just might suffer from what I call: The enterprise smart home syndrome.
When working in IT, youโll often end
Iโve built quite a few add-ons for Hass.io, the Docker management system for Home Assistant; and because of that, I get a lot of requests for building all different kinds of add-ons, like WireGuard.
Undoubtedly, the most requested add-ons are related to providing a VPN solution, that will
This article is going to show you how to convert your (existing) wired doorbell (also works for battery-powered chimes) into a smart, WiFi-enabled, doorbell. The essential components needed sets you back about $2, yes, that is correct, just two bucks. No soldering is required and you donโt have to
โ ๏ธThis blog post is already really old... things changed a lot since then. Just so you know.
So you got a power plug or any other device that can measure power, current or the voltage flowing through it. Nice! So did I, and I flashed them with ESPHome since well,
The day after. Yesterday, I was doing my weekly add-on development stream on Twitch but was interrupted. A real-life Paulus Schoutsen (Founder of Home Assistant) showing up on my doorstep by surprise. Holy mother of home automations! ๐ฒ
FYI: Paulus lives in the USA, while I live in The Netherlands. So
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