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 devices that are only triggered once every few months. Because of their sleep mode, they perform actions as […]

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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 and control over your smart devices. Whether you’re at work, on vacation, or just out for the day, […]

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Nginx 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 for protecting your data and meeting security best practices. HTTP is still required for certain integrations that rely […]

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Home 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 in this article: https://www.diyenjoying.com/2022/09/25/home-assistant-zigbee-integration-with-xiaomi-gateway/ Unfortunately, after three years of stable functioning, I was faced with the issue due […]

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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 Telegram notifications (Home Assistant Telegram integration), as my Home Assistant setup was accessible only within my home network, […]

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Create 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 detect when an integration has frozen and enables the creation of an automation to trigger its reload. Configuration […]

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Home 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 installation of these addons. I hope you have followed my article and installed HA supervised. Otherwise, you can […]

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Manage 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 OK.ru VK.com Youtube etc. But AdGuard integration with Home Assistant provides an ability to switch ON/OFF filtering completely […]

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Change 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 on HA official web-site with the link: Generic Thermostat. “Generic Thermostat” has a bunch of temperature preset modes: […]

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Multizone 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 on HA official web-site with the link:Generic Thermostat. Unfortunately, “Generic Thermostat” supports only one sensor and only one […]

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ZigBee 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 about this until you notice that some of automations doesn’t work any more. This guidance about configuring notifications […]

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HOW 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 lamp mode simultaneously with Styrbar and Philips HUE sensor due to movement detection and light intensity.  Further steps require […]

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EMQX 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 in this article: https://www.diyenjoying.com/2022/09/25/home-assistant-zigbee-integration-with-xiaomi-gateway/ Unfortunately, after three years of stable functioning, I was faced with the issue due […]

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NetworkManager 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 installations in the following articles): Install Raspberry OS with Home Assistant Supervisor NSTALL HOME ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR ONTO Ubuntu […]

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Home 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 have an ability to revert it back. The configuration for the additional pannel has to be placed directly […]

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Home 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 HA cloud with a paid subscription to get notifications outside of your home network. First of all, Telegram […]

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Simple 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 that you can be faced with network issues if docker is installed on it. Docker adopts a server […]

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INSTALL 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 necessary packages First of all make your system updated: $ sudo -s # /home/pi# apt update && apt […]

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Integration 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 “Mosquitto broker”. Install the add-on and launch it. The “start” button will replace the “Install” button after the […]

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Home 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 integrations work if a manufacturer’s cloud is accessible. You can connect devices supported by a manufacturer only. The […]

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Install 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.  Of cause I spent a lot of time choosing a suitable case with room for HDD, but this […]

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DDNS 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 you would like to have access to your home network from the internet (with openvpn for example). You […]

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BTRFS 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 sensitive for an unexpected reboot. As a result, it was completely destroyed in 50% cases with power failure […]

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Configure 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 spend around $400 and get a low-configurable device. But, if you already have a Linux-based server in your […]

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Setup 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 can easily update your instance with getting a new docker image. DataBase can be accessible from Docker network […]

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Get 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 another hand I was not sure that this way is the best. So, I decided to use the […]

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Install 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 -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg –dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg 4. Install Docker Engine echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg –print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian […]

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