When the smart home has a smart door lock, there are many useful (and useless) automations you can set up. It can be good to know when the children come home, or just generally know who unlocked the door.With ID Lock 150 this is possible. Requirements The lock must be…
Worx Landroid – integration
Wouldn’t it be great if you could control the robotic lawnmower via Home Assistant? Think of the possibilities. One can e.g. start the mower when no one is home. Or you can stop it if it rains, and restart it again after example. 2 hours since the last rainfall. Or…
Automate car functions
Automating the car may sound drastic, but the point is to be able to take advantage of the car’s capabilities into your smart home.Most new cars have an app that you can set e.g. when to drive and thus the car will be hot at the right time. But what…
Stop wasting money
One of the goals of a smarter home should be to save money and the environment.One of the areas we have looked at was then to make sure that the heating of the house was made a little smarter. It is a relatively simple matter to only adjust the heat…
iOS calendar integration
If you do have and iOS product and uses the calendar there, you might like to integrate this calendar into Home Assistant. This is not a complex task at all. Firs of all, you need to create a new application password. This is not you normal user account password. Sign…
Humidity in the bathroom
Why should we turn on / off the hot fan manually when you can get a smart home to do this automatically? In order to automate ventilation in one room based on the humidity, you need two things. a sensor for measuring humidity the ability to turn a fan on…
WiZ smart light
We have two decorative figures at home that we would “upgrade” with some colors. Until now we only had a smart plug to turn them on / off, but we wanted something more. We found some light bulbs from WiZ that could do this at a reasonable price.WiZ has smart…
Auto clean up
If you have set up solutions in the smart home that fill the disk / SD card with data, then you may want to create an automation that deletes such files on a regular basis. With us, we have, among other things, set up camera recordings, and if you do…