Ping ZigBee Devices
📡 Zigbee devices issue Zigbee controllers are a great way to automate your home, but what happens when they don’t update their status correctly? I have several Zigbee […]
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Free of charge DDNS for Home Assistant remote access
🌍 Accessing Home Assistant from Anywhere Having access to Home Assistant not just within your home network but from anywhere in the world can greatly enhance the convenience […]
Read moreNginx as a reverse proxy for Home Assistant
Introduction When setting up Home Assistant, there may be a need to access it using both HTTPS and HTTP protocols: HTTPS ensures secure, encrypted communication, which is essential […]
Read moreHome Assistant Sonoff zigbee
Introduction 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 moreUniversal 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 […]
Read moreHow to avoid getting outside dirty air by changing AERIS NEXT 350/ ZEHNDER recuperator mode
After 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 moreCreate automation to reload the integration
Home 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 moreIntegration AERIS next 350/ Zehnder recuperator with Home Assistant
Table 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 HACS installation
Home 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 moreManage AdGuard Blocked services with Home Assistant
As 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 moreChange preset_mode of Generic Thermostat in Home Assistant
Home 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 moreMultizone Virtual Thermostat with Home Assistant
Home 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 moreState Depended Icons on Home Assistant Dashboard with Standard Cards
Introduction 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 moreZigBee Lost Connection Notifications
Introduction 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 moreHOW TO SYNC RGB LAMPS AND CHANGE SCENES WITH IKEA REMOTE
Introduction 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 moreEMQX integration with Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT
Introduction 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 moreNetworkManager configuration to solve DNS issues with Home Assistant
Introduction 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 moreHome Assistant Revert back Supervisor panel
Introduction 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 moreHome Assistant Telegram integration
Introduction 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 moreSimple configuration OpenWRT as a VPN server
why 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 moreINSTALL HOME ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR ONTO Ubuntu
why 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 moreIntegration between Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant
Zigbee2mqtt 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 moreHome Assistant ZigBee integration with Xiaomi Gateway
why 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 moreInstall Raspberry OS with Home Assistant Supervisor
why 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 moreDDNS for FREE with GoDaddy
why 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 moreBTRFS with SAMBA
why 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 moreHow I tried to improve my site performance with migration from Apache to NGINX and the results exceeded all expectations.
Why 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 moreConfigure your Linux based NAS as a TimeCapsule
The 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 moreSetup WordPress with Apache and phpMyAdmin in a Docker container
Advantages 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 Free SSL certificate for your site
Get 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 moreInstall Docker-compose onto Raspberry OS or Ubuntu
1. 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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