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Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.3!

We are steamrolling on into the third Home Assistant release of the year already, 2023.3, and this month we see a few new UI changes, Matter & Thread upgrades and new abilities for Assist!

Home Assistant

Easily Backup & Migrate Your Zigbee Network!

A new feature was added to Home Assistant that makes backing up and migrating your Home Assistant Zigbee network easier than ever, both on ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT - I will show you how, using the Home Assistant SkyConnect!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2023.2!

Home Assistant 2023.2 has big updates when it comes to voice, with their new Assist feature. We also have live graphs, aliases and sensor groups plus so much more!

Home Assistant

Controlling Google Home With Home Assistant!

Controlling Google Home devices using Home Assistant just became a reality thanks to a brand new Integration, allowing you to automate even more things!

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Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.11!

Home Assistant 2022.11 includes new cards, water usage tracking, a better way to reload automations and new template features!

Smart Home Tech

Why You Should(n't) Care About Matter For Your Smart Home

Matter is the new Smart Home standard on the block - is it going to be a game changer for your smart home or have we seen similar promises before?

Guides

4 Automations For A Better Smart Home Alarm System!

Take your DIY smart home alarm to the next level with multi user support on keypads, a silent panic mode, a panic button & NFC control!

Home Assistant

Build Your Own Local Controlled Smart Home Alarm!

You can build your own smart home alarm system in Home Assistant using hardware you may have, and an excellent custom component that makes things super easy!

Home Assistant

The Full Guide To Getting Started With Home Assistant Yellow!

The Home Assistant Yellow is a smart home hub focused on local control, privacy and powerful automations - come along as I show you how to set it up from start to finish.

Smart Home Tech

Easy & Free Remote Access For Home Assistant!

I have covered quite a few different remote access solutions for Home Assistant, either through port forwarding or setting up a VPN. But recently, it has emerged there is another way to do it...via a Cloudflare tunnel! It's easy to get started and best of all? It's free!

Newsletter

The Pilot

Welcome to our first newsletter full of Home Assistant tips and Automations to level up your smart home game!

Home Assistant

Save Power By Sleeping Your PC With Presence

Save on your energy bills by intelligently sleeping your computer with Home Assistant

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Creating A Window/Door Notification in Home Assistant

Create automated reminders that alert you if you've left a door or window open when you go out for the day!

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Automate Shopping Lists with Home Assistant

Automate notifications for your shopping list, so you never forget to pick up an essential item ever again!