Home Assistant Amber has just been announced as an all-in-one hub that has all you need to get started with a smart home, but also offers flexibility for future upgrades [ … ]
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5 More Home Assistant Beginner Mistakes to Avoid!
You guys seems to love part one of this little mini series where we took a look at some of the most common Home Assistant beginner mistakes that I see [ … ]
5 Home Assistant Beginner MISTAKES to Avoid!
Home Assistant is an amazing piece of software that we all know and love, but if you are just getting started then it can be a bit overwhelming trying to [ … ]
Monitor Your Smart Homes Energy Usage with Home Assistant!
Home Assistant just dropped a big new feature that is going to massively improve the way you monitor your smart homes energy usage, with a powerful new way to track [ … ]
Home Assistant Add-ons for Beginners
If you are just getting started with Home Assistant, you may have heard a lot of people talk about something called add-ons, which do pretty much exactly what you think, [ … ]
Home Assistant vs OpenHAB – Which one is better?
Choosing a Home Automation Platform can be a really difficult decision and one that you will need to make when you begin your journey into the Home Automation world. It’s [ … ]
DIY Motorised Smart Blinds
Building your own motorised smart blinds is a really attractive idea and something I’ve been meaning to get to for quite some time – after all, some of the off [ … ]
How to build a WiFi connected Fingerprint Sensor with Home Assistant
When I posted some update videos on Reddit and Twitter (make sure to follow me there for more updates!) earlier this week about the Fingerprint Sensor update, the reaction was [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 5 – Notifications
Welcome back to part 5 of the “Getting Started with Home Assistant” series after a short hiatus – we saw some changes coming with regards to the mobile app which [ … ]
How to make your own dual-purpose wireless alarm system with Home Assistant – Part 1
Ever looked at adding an alarm system to your house only to overwhelmed by the plethora of options out there? We get you, it can be very hard to make [ … ]