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SMLIGHT Zigbee Coordinators. So Many Options!

SMLIGHT Zigbee Coordinators. So Many Options!

I review some of the SMLIGHT Zigbee coordinators that you should use in your smart home with Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, and ZHA.

Conversations and Service Call Data in Home Assistant

Conversations and Service Call Data in Home Assistant

Make your IoT work for you. Conversations and Sentence Triggers with Automations in Home Assistant.

Using Your VOIP Phone to Control Your House

Using Your VOIP Phone to Control Your House

Home Assistant has been working on local voice control and adding functionality to extend that to more than just the typical smart speakers. They do this through integrations and what they call "assist pipelines". 💡Watch my related video here. Assist pipelines include speech-to-text and text-to-speech. For those, they

Home Assistant 2023.5 Broke Ecowitt

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Home Assistant 2023.5 Broke Ecowitt

I'm a long-time weather enthusiast and I like having the awareness and insight that a hyper-local weather station brings. In this case, directly from my backyard. The recent update to Home Assistant 2023.5 broke the HACS Ecowitt integration that I had been using for years. It turns

Using the Cloudflared Add-On

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Using the Cloudflared Add-On

I wrote an article and made a video on how to remotely connect to Home Assistant and other internal network resources using Cloudflare Tunnels. I got a ton of feedback on that asking why I didn't use the Cloudflared Home Assistant add-on instead. The simple answer is that

Frigate NVR with Docker and Home Assistant

Frigate NVR with Docker and Home Assistant

I have been using Frigate for a while now and recently I moved my whole Frigate setup first from Home Assistant as an add-on to a VirtualBox VM, and finally to a Dell Optiplex Micro running Frigate in a Docker Container. This post and related video are at the request

Bluetooth Proxies in Home Assistant

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Bluetooth Proxies in Home Assistant

Bluetooth has been a popular protocol and was invented back in the late 1990's. It exists in many products today, such as tablets, phones, media players, headsets, modems, watches, and many more. In the smart home world, Bluetooth Low Energy is more useful and this comes in the

Home Assistant Control and Notifications on Your PC

Home Assistant Control and Notifications on Your PC

Hass.Agent on your Windows PC tied together with Home Assistant can do a LOT of things. Controlling aspects of your PC from Home Assistant and controlling entities in Home Assistant from your PC are just a few of those things. HASS.Agent is a Windows-based client (companion) application for

Keeping Tabs on your Network

Keeping Tabs on your Network

If you run a home lab or run anything of importance in your home network, it is important to know when things are not working as expected. I've had many occasions in which something went down and I was either notified by the owner of the service I

Automatic Home Assistant Dashboards

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Automatic Home Assistant Dashboards

One of the great things about Home Assistant is the many different ways to create dashboards and interfaces that are useful for your specific use cases. In addition to creating these dashboards manually, Dwain Scheeren has created an integration called Dwains Lovelace Dashboard. This is touted as a "fully

Weather Integrations and Severe Weather Alerts in Home Assistant

Weather Integrations and Severe Weather Alerts in Home Assistant

Add weather integrations and severe weather alerting to Home Assistant.