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 only tested this with light bulbs, but it should work with sockets and other sensors as well. Note: The first…
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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 managed from the UI. See the documentation for more detail. Some entities can’t be fixed, but you can fix some. Like for…
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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 string Christmas lights. These are connected to the Home Assistant to be able to turn them on and off. Not…
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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 firmware on a device, it will both correct errors and remove any security holes. It can also come with new…
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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 is a little bit different than the traditional Homey Pro, or Home Assistant. The biggest difference is that you need…
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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 something else. By default, the sensor appears as a door sensor, and then with one icon for a door. But,…
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Home Assistant Energy + Tibber
Home Assistant recently announced a new energy feature. Now it is even easier to monitor what uses electricity in your home, and in that way be able to control energy consumption sensibly. Do you have power from Tibber you can in a very simple way add the data so that…
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Getting started
How do you get started with Home Assistant? Fortunately, it is not really that difficult.Home Assistant can be run on anything from an old laptop, NUC, Raspberry Pi, or for example a Synology NAS. Home Assistant supports a large number of different installations. Here there are great opportunities for you…