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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…
POW
Here’s the sample “Backlog” command: Backlog SSID1 <xxxxxx>; Password1 <yyyyyy>; MqttHost <brokerIP>; MqttUser <xxxxxxx>; MqttPassword <yyyyyyy>; GPIO14 09; Hostname sonoff_name; MqttClient sonoff_name; Topic sonoff_name; FriendlyName1 Sonoff Name; The Sonoff Pow R2 is a produnct provided by bangood that monitors power. In this specific scenario I am going to use it to figure out…
Installing Sonoff in the Wall
This is a follow up to “Using Sonoff as a Light Switch” Leave it connected. Go to your Router and find the new device with “sonoff” in the name. Get its IP address and put it in the browser. If everything worked you should see the control page for the sonoff. Under Configuration Change GPIO…
MQTT Car Presence
Automating your garage doors makes a lot of sense. I’ve done two videos already on how to make your garage doors more smarter. In this video I’ll show you how to use a D1 mini, in your car, to have your garage doors opening and closing when you need them to. The best part is…
Home Assistant 101 – The introduction you’ve been waiting for
As the title indicates, this is an introduction level video. My purpose is to explain the basics of smart home control options and then talk a bit about Home Assistant. What it is, and why you would want to use it. This is really about creating a “Smart Home”. Having a smart home means you…
Don’t get off the couch! Control your TV and Stereo with Home Assistant using the Broadlink IR Bridge
HA Forum for Broadlink Manager Download Broadlink Manager HA Docs for Broadlink IR Switches Welcome back to the World of Home Automation. If you are a human with electricity, you probably have one of these. This is the Broadlink RM Pro. And this, is his little brother, the Broadlink RM mini. In the next few…