For a while I have looked into making a better connection to my plant sensor. The MiFlora plant sensor is a BLE device, that you can connect directly to Home Assistant if you have a BLE device (like Raspberry Pi with Wifi, or a NUC with a Bluetooth device on)….
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SmartThings and Samsung washer
We just bought a new washing machine, a Samsung WW5300 which has Wifi and the option to connect to SmartThings.In Home Assistant, there is a separate integration for SmartThings, and fortunately, it is straightforward to set up this link. When you have connected Home Assistant and SmartThings, devices that have…
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Integrate Tractive with Home Assistant
If you are the owner of a dog or cat, it may be nice to have a GPS tracker on your furry friend. Tractive is a GPS tracker that you attach to the collar of the cat or dog, and it works in almost the whole world (as long as…
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The Watchman
If you have had Home Assistant for a while, then you have also definitely added and removed some things in the solution over time. Have you ever thought about where all the information is stored? For example. how many of your automations use a device, like you. maybe have removed?This…
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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 MariaDB on Home Assistant is a very easy job. BUT, be aware that when you do, you will lose the…
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Media player
In Norway, many have an Easter tradition to listen to a radio quiz called “Påskelabyrinten”. This radio quiz has been on since 1987. We can’t miss out on this tradition, so why not use Home Assistant to automatically send us a reminder and turn it on for us. With Home…
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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 only tested this with light bulbs, but it should work with sockets and other sensors as well. Note: The first…