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HA Dashboard – Touch Display & Control for Home Assistant
ByDrZzs
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…
Home Assistant Floorplan – Awesome Custom UI
ByDrZzs
Wouldn’t it be great to have a custom UI that would show all your smart home devices laid out on a floorplan of your house. So with just a glance you could see which lights are on, which doors are open, or where there are people moving around? Of course you’d also want to…
RFID Card Reader
ByDrZzs
After the fantastic reception that my magnetic door locks video got, I got a lot of questions about doing a RFID Card Reader video. I did it. 🙂 Today we are going to use the arduino sketch esp-rfid. Go to the repository and download the Zip file. Open it up and find the bin folder….
Alexa Media Player
ByDrZzs
At our house, we use Alexa a lot. In fact, we have an Echo Dot in almost every room. Alexa has been great at controlling our smart home devices. But we also listen to a lot of music. Until recently we couldn’t use home assistant to play music through the amazon echo. But now thanks…
Presence Detection with Life360 (or OwnTracks if you prefer)
ByDrZzs
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…
T1 Mounting & Temp Sensor
ByDrZzs
T1 Mounting & Temp Sensor The search for the perfect Smart Light switch has led me to the Sonoff T1. There are a lot of things to like about the T1, but the one big knock against it is the style. Let me show you what I’ve done to make the T1 more Wife-Approvable. And…