Posted inSmart home
Unique ID
If you have created an entity manually in Home Assistant, you might have seen the message "This entity ('abcde.fghi') does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be…
Posted inAutomation
Random quote
How about starting the day with a random quote, or getting encouragement after a workout?With the help of the automation in Home Assistant, this is possible to implement.In this example,…
Posted inAutomation
Automation for entering and leaving Zones
Sometimes it would be nice to get a notification when someone enters or leaves a Zone. An example could be that a person leaves home, or a person enters school.…
Posted inAutomation
Outdoor light
In order not to use unnecessary power, all lights outdoors are controlled by LUX. That is, how much light there is. When it gets dark enough, we turn on the…
Posted inSmart home
Christmas lights
What is not Christmas without some Christmas lights (which we can automate).We have made it very easy in terms of the automation of the Christmas lights.Outdoors we have used Twinkly…
Posted inAutomation
Remember to charge your car
What is no more annoying than discovering that you had forgotten to plug in the charger for the car before going to bed. Or maybe even more annoying, to come…
Posted inSmart home Zigbee
Firmware upgrade
Even if you have a closed smart home network, you may want to upgrade the firmware on your Zigbee and Z-wave devices when there is an upgrade.When you upgrade the…
Posted inAutomation
Tomorrow’s weather forecast
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…
