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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…
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…
Smart Bathroom
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…
Holiday LEDs
Holiday LED build Christmas lights are fun, but what about other holidays? Wouldn’t it be cool to have pink lights for Valentine’s day, Green lights for St Patrick’s day, Paisleys for Easter, RWB for 4th of July, Lightning for Halloween, and Fall colors for Thanksgiving? Ya, that would be cool! You could probably find a…
Maker Faire Display | 3-way & 2 wire switch, Sonoff B1, and HA Dashboard
Besides just showing off the awesome stuff you can do with home automation, we’re using the Maker Faire display to demonstrate a few different situations that have come up in questions and comments on previous videos. First, let’s look at a light switch wiring situation from my first “sonoff-as-a-light-switch” video. When I was explaining different…
More Holiday LED Effects
As promised. Here’s how you can make even more custom LED effects for other Holidays. This is the non-programmer’s way to decipher and change the arduino sketch. There are certainly other (and likely better) ways to do it, but this is what I learned and how I did it. If you find other ways…
