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Smart Bathroom There are a lot of ways to smarten up your home. It’s easy to find Home Automation ideas for your bedroom, living room, kitchen, office, or garage… But the one room that usually gets forgotten is the bathroom. It’s time to correct that, and show some smart home love to sanctuary of the…
Presence Detection with Life360 (or OwnTracks if you prefer)
Presence Detection: One of the most useful, and yet elusive, features of a good Smart Home is location tracking. For as long as I’ve been involved in the DIY Smart Home community (which admittedly hasn’t been very long), there has been a clamoring among the people in search of the “best” way to incorporate location…
HA Dashboard – Touch Display & Control for Home Assistant
Watch the Video here As soon as I saw an example of someone’s HA Dashboard I was smitten. I knew I had to have it! Unfortunately, when I started looking into how to set it up I was very intimidated and kept putting it off. Well, now with Hass.io, and a great Add-on maintained by…
Connecting Google Home w/o Home Assistant Cloud
Before starting ensure the following: – * Home Assistant configuration has to be externally accessible with a hostname and valid SSL certificate * Ensure you are logged into your preferred google account in your browser and mobile device. First we need to create a project titled “home assistant” with the help of Google Actions https://console.actions.google.com/…
SweetHome 3d
This is Home Automation. We’re dealing with a bunch of connected devices in our homes, so it makes sense that one very useful way to interact with those devices is by looking at a picture of the floorplan. The software that I’ve been using for my floorplans is called SweetHome3D. Here’s my simple explanation of…
NodeRED and Hassio – Install & Setup
So you’ve got Hassio up and running. You’ve probably got a few smart switches and lights, maybe some sensors and even presence detection. Now the real magic in Home Automation is getting all those smart devices to work together to make your house feel alive. With Home Assistant you can do that with automations or…