· 5 min read 993 viewsHome Assistant backup to Synology NAS
Regularly backing up your Home Assistant configuration is crucial to protect your smart home deployment. This article explains how you can backup your Home Assistant to NAS.
· 5 min read 6646 viewsGreen grass with Home Assistant
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...
· 6 min read 12028 viewsWater tank monitoring with ESPHome
Watering your 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.
· 6 min read 21999 viewsArlo Cameras in Home Assistant
Home Assistant & Arlo cameras go better very well. I'm using it since our entire setup got migrated from OpenHab to Home Assistant and I'm happy with the setup.
· 3 min read 245 viewsMini plant watering project
I would like to show you my new half 30 minutes no coding holiday Home Assistant project.
· 3 min read 1283 viewsHome Assistant: You have got mail
Today I want to share a little holiday project I build this week: a mailbox sensor to make a dumb mailbox smart and notifying us if we got new mail. I’m talking about real physical mail here - letters, postcards, newspapers etc. dropped into our mailbox.
· 2 min read 460 viewsOur home sweet smart home
Our Home Assistant setup is pretty simple - everything currently runs on a single board computer - smooth and stable for 12+ months. This is how our setup looks like.
· 3 min read 629 viewsHome Assistant - Homematic HM-Dis-EP-WM55 e-paper display
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.- · 4 min read 609 views
Home Assistant - The big move
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.