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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Camera surveillance and notification
When we are not at home, we like to have control over what moves at home. Therefore, in some rooms we have set up camera surveillance. These cameras will record video when there is movement in this room and none of us are home. At the same time, a push…
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Alarm in freezer and refrigerator
When the temperature increases in the freezer or refrigerator, so it’s okay to get information about this. Then you can potentially save some food. We have installed a Agar temperature, humidity and pressure sensor in all refrigerators and freezers we have at home. These sensors give us continuous status on…
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Node-RED and Home Assistant
Node-RED is a tool for visualizing automation to be created. By default, Home Assistant has a powerful automation engine, where you can create all kinds of automation. If you are going to use something more advanced than “Trigger”, “Condition” and “Action”, then you must have some programming knowledge.However, using an…
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Anyone home?
Something we think is important to have control over in our smart home is if someone is at home. By knowing if there is someone in the house or not, you can automate many tasks around e.g. cleaning, alarm, light and heat. One of the easiest ways to automatically check…