With this post, I would like to introduce a new category: My Automations! Here, I would like to present some small but useful automations. These usually work without a lot of bells and whistles. Today...
I previously showed you how to integrate Telegram into Home Assistant and what the advantages are. This time, I would like to show you how to control Home Assistant with Telegram. We only need two aut...
The smart home only works well as long as everything is done the way you are used to. But what if something is not ‘normal’? Someone is staying over, you are on holiday or you are having a party. Of c...
I have integrated two Tapo IP cameras into my smart home. These are currently available on Amazon* for less than 25 Euro. I mostly use the cameras to see what the cats are up to when no one is at home...
I recently watched this video and thought it was a great idea to use an LED strip as a visual timer. In the video, Paul says that it took forever to set up. He also only has fixed timers, and it looks...
Making dumb devices smart is probably the favourite hobby of every smart home nerd. I recently integrated a fill level indicator for the automatic feeder into Home Assistant. I achieved this with an E...
Pausing the television when the Alexa timer rings is one of my favourite automations. All you need is an Amazon Echo device*, with Alexa Media Player integration from HACS in Home Assistant, and a tel...
Many of you are probably familiar with the bring! app. This is probably the best shopping list app currently available. In addition to the classic shopping list, data is synchronised across multiple d...
In this post, I would like to show you how I monitor the Surefeed* food bowl in Home Assistant. Surefeed* food bowls can read the chips implanted in pets and open automatically so that only the right ...
