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 [ … ]
Tag: Home Assistant
Projects involving Home Assistant
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 4 – Automations and Templates
Welcome to part 4 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 3 – Configuration/Adding entities
Welcome to part 3 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 2 – Setup and Lovelace Overview
Welcome to part 2 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting started with Home Assistant – Part 1 – Installation
Introduction Welcome to the first part of our Getting started with Home Assistant series! This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. [ … ]
Wifi Dimmer switch with Tasmota – Tuya Dimmer guide
Dimmer switches have been around for a long time, useful for those situations where you just don’t want a bulb to be at 100% brightness all the time. So what [ … ]
Building a bed occupancy sensor for Home Assistant
Building a bed occupancy sensor for Home Assistant automations
DIY Philips Hue LED Strips – Installing ESPHome on Magic Home RGBW controllers
Following on from our last post about installing ESPHome on cheap smart bulbs from Amazon, this time we are going to take cheap RGBW controllers and install ESPHome on them [ … ]
How to install ESPHome or Tasmota on a cheap smart wifi RGB bulb
With literally hundreds of smart bulbs out there on the market, I show you how to install ESPHome on them for full Home Assistant integration.