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Keep Track of Your Smart Home Device Batteries with Battery Notes
If you, like me, have a wide range of battery-powered devices in your smart home setup, it can be challenging to keep track of the battery types for each device. However, I recently stumbled upon an excellent solution called Battery Notes, a smart custom component that simplifies this task. Battery…
DreameBot L10 Ultra
Just upgraded to a new vacuum cleaner robot with a mopping function – DreameBot L10 Ultra.Then of course you have to enter it into the Home Assistant so that you can use it a little smarter.Fortunately, this was a very easy job, as a very good plugin has been created…
Home Assistant Tray Menu for Windows
Want to control some of your favorite Home Assistant sensors directly from the Windows system tray menu? No problem. There is a small little tool for just that as well The installation itself is super easy. All you need to do is download the tool from Pascal’s GIT hub site,…
Aqara FP2 presence sensor
I just got an Aqara FP2 presence sensor, and here is how I added this sensor to Home Assistant. Note – this sensor is using WiFi. The first thing you need to do is download the Aqara Home app on your phone (if you don’t already have it…).You need this…
Open ChatGPT and Home Assistant
There has been a lot of talk about ChatGPT and areas of use for the solution. It is known that this solution does not have updated entirely datasets, but there is still a lot of fun that you can use the system for.One of the things I’ve seen some people…
Getting Started with the TPLink Deco Home Assistant Plugin
Disclaimer: for fun, this article is written by ChatGPT with the query: “Could you create an article on how to use the plugin on https://github.com/amosyuen/ha-tplink-deco” All I have done is format the text with headings. Introduction Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that allows you to control and…
Virtual Power Sensors
Unfortunately, it is the case that there are many devices that do not report their power consumption in the Home Assistant. It can be light bulbs, LED strips, or other devices.Since these do not emit electricity consumption, it is difficult to know what uses electricity most. Is it the light…