Posts tagged with home-assistant

Use Home Assistant to turn camera motion into AI-powered spoken descriptions. Snapshot, analyze with AI, and push to your speaker with text-to-speech. Your smart home can now tell you what's happening outside!

This Home Assistant guide compares popular weather cards including the built-in Weather Forecast Card and community alternatives like Clock Weather Card, Platinum Weather Card, and Simple Weather Card. The author provides setup instructions and recommendations for choosing between minimalist or feature-rich weather displays for your dashboard.

Home Assistant's 2025 backup system introduces native cloud storage, flexible encryption, and automated scheduling following the 3-2-1 backup rule. The article covers setting up automatic backups to Synology NAS, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Home Assistant Cloud with configuration steps and recovery best practices.

Automate Reolink camera notifications with Home Assistant to overcome app limitations such as geo-fencing and scheduling. Create custom notifications based on location, time or other conditions by configuring simple YAML scripts, increasing the flexibility and intelligence of your home security system.

Smart homes are increasingly using temperature and humidity sensors for automation, and I've installed over 10 throughout my house, including the garden, loft, fridge and pool. ZigBee sensors are ideal for this because of their low power consumption and reliable communication, allowing them to run on batteries for months or even years.

Smart homes increasingly use temperature and humidity sensors for automation, and I've installed over 10 throughout my house, including the garden, attic, fridge, and pool. ZigBee sensors are ideal for this due to their low power consumption and reliable communication, allowing them to operate on batteries for months or even years.

Inspired by the Home Assistant community, I built a desk-friendly e-paper display using ESPHome. This blog post details my journey from gathering components to creating a custom home automation dashboard that delivers real-time data in a sleek wooden case. Discover how rewarding and accessible e-paper displays can be for your smart home.

Since sharing our initial insights into the Home Assistant setup at my first post about our Home Assistant setup, a lot has transformed. It's time for an update. This article will walk you through the changes, replacements of devices and integrations, additions of new elements, and the tried-and-true components that have proven to be reliable.

Regularly backing up your Home Assistant configuration is critical to protecting your smart home deployment. This article explains how to back up your Home Assistant to a NAS.

The third part of my Our Own Electricity series describes how I integrated our photovoltaic system into Home Assistant.

Automate your lawn sprinklers for effortless, intelligent watering using Home Assistant. This guide details how to connect your system to create smart schedules based on weather and soil conditions. Get a healthier, greener lawn while optimizing water usage.

Home Assistant & Arlo cameras go together very well. I'm using them since our entire setup got migrated from OpenHab to Home Assistant and I'm happy with the integration.

I would like to show you my new 30 min, no coding holiday plant watering project.

Today I want to share a little holiday project I am building this week: a mailbox sensor to make a dumb mailbox smart and notify us when we get new mail. I'm talking about real physical mail - letters, postcards, newspapers, etc. that get dropped into our mailbox.

Our Home Assistant setup is pretty simple - everything currently runs on a single board computer - smooth and stable for over 12 months. This is our setup.

My second Home Assistant project is about the integration of the Homematic HM-Dis-EP-WM55 e-paper display in my HA setup. I am sharing some reusable scripts for this or similar devices.

This project is about the change I did from OpenHab to Home Assistant for our smart home automation system. Ok maybe the headline sounds a bit too sensational but change our entire home automation setup from one system we used for 2+ years now to a completely new one requires quite some heavy lifting.