Universal script for Home Assistant notifications
In my journey with Home Assistant, ensuring timely notifications has been crucial (to be informed of low battery in sensors or disconnected ZigBee devices). Initially, I opted for […]
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Home Assistant/ Raspberry PI/ WordPress/ Docker
Home Assistant/ Raspberry PI/ WordPress/ Docker
In my journey with Home Assistant, ensuring timely notifications has been crucial (to be informed of low battery in sensors or disconnected ZigBee devices). Initially, I opted for […]
Read moreAfter configuring the Home Assistant integration (please find the guidance with the link), I noticed the option to switch the recuperator mode between: Balance: allowing two-way air flows. […]
Read moreHome Assistant itself is generally stable; however, certain integrations may occasionally freeze. In such instances, it becomes necessary to reload them. Fortunately, Home Assistant offers a solution to […]
Read moreTable of Contents Add a header to begin generating the table of contents I had a preinstalled recuperator in my home, so I began thinking about integrating it […]
Read moreHome Assistant encompasses numerous integrations with various systems and services, with even more continually being developed by the HA community. Therefore, you must install HACS, which facilitates the […]
Read moreAs a parent I want to limit entertainment and game time for my kid. Fortunately, AdGuard has presets to block a bunch of services like: Minecraft Roblox Mail.ru […]
Read moreHome Assistant provides useful standard integration “Generic Thermostat” to create a virtual thermostat using some temperature sensor and switch for turning ON/OFF a heater. You can find documentation […]
Read moreHome Assistant provides useful standard integration “Generic Thermostat” to create a virtual thermostat using some temperature sensor and switch for turning ON/OFF a heater. You can find documentation […]
Read moreIntroduction It’s very useful to make the actual state visible with icon changing depending on it. During my research on how to make cards with state-dependent icons, I […]
Read moreIntroduction By default you can see on your dashboard only that some of ZigBee devices lost connection with Home Assistant. It’s useless because you can have no idea […]
Read moreIntroduction I purchased IKEA devices for making Ambilight in my small living room: Two lamps TRADFRI LED 806 Remote styrbar The goal is to switch on/off and change […]
Read moreIntroduction I used Xiaomi Gateway 3 for my Smart Home with Home Assistant integration last three years. You can find guidance on how to integrate it with Zegbee2MQTT […]
Read moreIntroduction I used Xiaomi Gateway 3 for my Smart Home with Home Assistant integration last three years. You can find guidance on how to integrate it with Zegbee2MQTT […]
Read moreIntroduction You can be faced with DNS issues in Home Assistant. Especially, if Home assistant supervised version is installed onto Debian fork (you can find guidance for such […]
Read moreIntroduction Supervisor panel is integrated into the Setting section but with reduced functionality in novadays versions. Hopefully, the panel is hidden but not removed totaly. So, we still […]
Read moreIntroduction Purpose to use telegram Home Assistant provides a lot of options for notifications. The most attractive of push notifications in HA mobile applications. But this approach requires […]
Read morewhy your router is the best place to run a VPN server Of course you can run your VPN server on your home server, but please be aware […]
Read morewhy ubuntu preferable then HA OS Ubuntu is a very popular OS with reach functionality and enough long story to trust in security and stability of it. Install […]
Read moreZigbee2mqtt configuration HA can’t work with Zigbee2MQTT directly. So, you have to install MQTT broker first. Go back to “Settings” -> “Add-ons”, click “ADD-ON STORE” and click on […]
Read morewhy zigbee2mqtt is needed A lot of add-ons were developed for different gateways. But, they mostly work with a manufactured provided cloud solution with the following limitations: Your […]
Read morewhy Raspberry PI & Raspberry OS are chosen Raspberry PI 4 is chosen as a platform for a home server because of its silence and low energy consumption. […]
Read morewhy DDNS is needed You may need DDN in following cases: You don’t have static IP (or don’t want to pay for it) for your home router, but […]
Read morewhy i started use btrfs I used Ubiquity Unify controller installed on my home Ubuntu server with Ext4 file system by default. Unify uses MongoDB which is very […]
Read moreWhy I tried migrate to NGINX: I launched my blog with LAMP installation (you can find steps to deploy in my previous article Setup WordPress with Apache and […]
Read moreThe reason for the setup own TimeCapsule Of cause, you can buy AirPort Time Capsule and setup it up for a few minutes if you are ready to […]
Read moreAdvantages run Word-Press in docker container: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server is isolated from hosted OS and installation/updating/removing it or depended software doesn’t affect your host. You […]
Read moreGet a certificate with CertBot and Let’s Encrypt I decided to try with CertBot because this solution looks like fully automated and doesn’t require any maintenance. But, in […]
Read more1. Get root rights with sudo: 2. Update your repositories and OS host:$ sudo -s Password: host:# host:# apt-get update host:# apt-get upgrade 3. Add Docker repository curl […]
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