Tag: HomeAssistant

  • Lovelace Dashboards

    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…

  • ZHA HomeAssistant Integration

    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…

  • HA Floorplan

    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…

  • 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.…

  • Cloudflared HA Addon

    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…