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Useful Zigbee sensors for Home Assistant

Supercharge Your Smart Home: A Guide to Essential Zigbee Sensors for Home Assistant If you’re diving into home automation with Home Assistant, you’ve likely heard about Zigbee. This low-power, wireless…

Lars 10/03/2026

Automation

Home Assistant automation ideas

Illustration of Home Assistant smart home automations connecting lights, sensors, climate control, and notifications.

Lars 08/03/2026

Home Automation Smart home

Track Norway’s Fixed Electricity Price in Home Assistant with the “Norgespris Universal” Sensor

Managing electricity usage efficiently is becoming increasingly important, especially for households with electric vehicles or smart home setups. Dynamic spot prices like Nord Pool are great. However, some users prefer…

Lars 14/02/2026

Smart home

Visualizing Hourly Electricity Prices in Home Assistant Using AMS Reader and ApexCharts

If you have ever tried to visualize future electricity prices in Home Assistant, you already know the pain. There are spinning cards, unknown states, and charts that simply refuse to…

Lars 07/01/2026

Integration

Monitoring Home Assistant with the Glances Add-on and Integration

Tracking system performance is crucial when running Home Assistant. This is especially true if you rely on it for automation, security, dashboards, and daily routines. A simple method to monitor…

Lars 13/12/2025

Zigbee

Upgrading My Home Assistant Zigbee Network to the New ZBT-2 Controller

A reliable Zigbee coordinator is the foundation of every stable smart home. After running my network for a long time using the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus, I recently…

Lars 09/12/2025

Smart home Technology WiFi

From Voice Chat Robot to Energy Speedometer with ESP32 + Home Assistant

Most gadgets end up doing something completely different than what they were made for. The XiaoZhi ESP32 AI Voice Chat Robot is one of them. Out of the box, it’s…

Lars 02/10/2025

Automation Smart home WiFi

Monitoring Water Tank Levels with M5Stack Atom and HX711 in Home Assistant

Keeping track of water levels in a tank can be a simple yet highly useful automation project. In this post, I'll demonstrate how to build a smart water tank monitor.…

Lars 26/09/2025