Tuya
Lars Finally, I had time to test the Tuya integration in Home Assistant. I had a Nedis Led-list SmartLife lying in the basement that I wanted to test against Home Assistant…
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MariaDB
By default, the setup in our Home Assistant installation has been to use the SQLite database. But there is a slightly faster (and better?) Database, namely MariaDB. Fortunately, setting up…
WiZ light in Home Assistant 2022.3
With the release of Home Assistant 2022.3, there is a new integration for WIZ. Now it is very simple to add a WiZ light to your Home Assistant. I have…
Unique ID
If you have created an entity manually in Home Assistant, you might have seen the message “This entity (‘abcde.fghi‘) does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be…
Christmas lights
What is not Christmas without some Christmas lights (which we can automate).We have made it very easy in terms of the automation of the Christmas lights.Outdoors we have used Twinkly…
Firmware upgrade
Even if you have a closed smart home network, you may want to upgrade the firmware on your Zigbee and Z-wave devices when there is an upgrade.When you upgrade the…
Homey Bridge
Just got my hands on a new Homey Bridge. Is it something that could work for a smart home? Homey Bridge was introduced on September 7th by Athom. Homey Bridge…
Change device class
If you have a door / window sensor, you may have noticed that Home Assistant does not magically know if the sensor is on a door, garage door, window, or…