Posts tagged with home-automation

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

Whether you want to see if you need an umbrella, trigger garden automation, or just want a nice weather forecast, it’s easy to integrate weather data into your Home Assistant. I don’t think I need to...

Two years ago, I wrote about backing up Home Assistant to a Synology NAS using NFS shares. While that method still works, the Home Assistant team has gone all-in on backups and massively improved Home...

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.

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.

Home Assistant controlled garden watering part 2 - are you ready? In my previous post, I explained how I measured the level of water in our garden cistern using ESPHome. In this post, I will describe...

Watering our lawn and plants around the house wasn't one of my favourite things to do. This had to be done better - fully automatically and without intervention.

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.