Isn’t it nice to be able to get tomorrow’s weather forecast on your mobile every night? This is very simple automation, which takes you 2 minutes to set up in Home Assistant. To find out what tomorrow’s weather forecast will be, we will use the yr.no integration. This is standard…
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Halloween 2021
Then it’s that time of year again, where it’s extra fun to scare someone. With a smart house, it is also almost mandatory to take advantage of the opportunities you have in automation to create something exciting. This year we made the team a simple setup.When someone rings the doorbell,…
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Light in the bathroom
It is a narrow matter to automate the light in the bathroom, with the help of e.g. a motion sensor. Enter the bathroom and the light will be turned on. X-minutes after there is no movement, then turn off the light. It is basic lighting control with a motion sensor….
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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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Good morning
Isn’t it nice to be able to get information about what the weather is like right now when you get up? How hot/cold is it, and what will be the temperature during the day?We solve this reasonably easily with simple automation in Home Assistant. There is only one condition that…
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Birthday reminder
When exactly was that birthday, and how old will the person be? With Home Assistant and a small integration, it is no problem to automate this.There are several ways to do this.You can use the integration with Google Calendar, but the downside here is that it does not enter how…
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Run automation only once every x minutes
If you monitor e.g. the temperature in the refrigerator/freezer, then it terribly annoying to get one alert every minute if the temperature exceeds the threshold value. But with Node-Red in Home Assistant, it is very easy to limit this alert. Use the node “delay” and set a “rate limit” on…
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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,…