Category: Home Assistant
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Getting Real Print Progress Into Home Assistant When Printing via TFT35
I’ve had the esp3d-homeassistant integration running for a while — it talks to a serial-to-WiFi adapter on the printer and exposes temperatures, position, and print status as Home Assistant entities. The problem is that it was originally built around printing from the printer’s own SD card: it polls M27 on a timer, Marlin replies with…
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Building a Home Assistant App Repo: Timelapses, a Dashboard, Parcel Tracking, and WordPress
Four custom apps, four GitHub repos, four separate entries in my Supervisor add-on store, three or four separate places to remember to push updates to: that’s what scratching one itch at a time with Home Assistant eventually gets you. The housekeeping annoyed me enough in the end that I consolidated the lot into one repo:…
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Selecting a ZigBee Channel
ZigBee can be a great way of handling smart home communication, without putting additional load on your existing WiFi network. Having the network separated, also means additional resilience for your smart home network, at times when your WiFi is under heavy load. Conversely, it also prevents heavy load on the ZigBee side from affecting WiFi…
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Lovelace Dashboards
In this post, I’m going to run through the lovelace dashboards that I have configured in my HomeAssistant instance. Theme The theme I have gone with is called Waves, I really like the Aesthetic. You can download it from github. Landing Page This is my main landing page for HA. I’ve designed this to be…
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ZHA HomeAssistant Integration
In the past I have used a SmartLife Zigbee 3.0 Hub and the Tuya cloud in turn with the Tuya HomeAsisstant integration for controlling my smart home devices. This was too many hops for my liking, and an unnecessary reliance on a 3rd party cloud. Overall , I was not happy with latency and volume…
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HA Floorplan
Utilising the picture entity card within lovelace, I was able to design this floorplan control card. The first step to achieving this was to design the CAD image for the floorplan. To do this, I used floorplanner.com. I did not register and therefore did not pay anything to use this service, to work around the…
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My Hassio Core Setup
I’ve run Hassio from RPi devices in the past and have been adequately happy with the performance. With my latest iteration of HomeAssistant, I planned to really push the limits of what I could do, using it as a test bed for many trial systems, and therefore wanted to have suitable hardware backing the instance.…
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Cloudflared HA Addon
I needed a way of accessing services hosted on my LAN externally. This could have been a tricky task as my home network runs off a 5G connection with frequently changing IP address. The Cloudflared addon for HomeAssistant is a great way to achieve this. The primary function of Cloudflared is to make HA accessible…