#home-assistant

Articles tagged with #home-assistant

Pi-hole behind Tailscale
As I age, I become increasingly cautious about my privacy. The slope the world is sliding on is also a big, unfortunate incentive. I have been eying Pi-hole for some time: in this post, I want to expl
Mar 12, 20266 min read
Loosely coupled configuration for Home Assistant
This post will be short, but I hope it prove to be useful. My home is getting more and more connected, and the number of my automations grows each passing month. Recently, I equipped my roller shutters with connected Somfy engines so they could roll ...
Jul 17, 20253 min read
Getting a single value from a device's state in Home Assistant
I recently acquired Netatmo smart radiator valves to manage my rooms' temperature remotely. I'm not skilled at manual tasks, but I could easily replace the old thermo-static valves. I then registered the smart ones in the Netatmo app. Finally, I inte...
May 26, 20253 min read
The Home Assistant companion app
Besides a regular webapp and a Mac app, which uses the same endpoints as the webapp, Home Assistant also provides mobile apps. In this post, I want to describe its advantages over the former. I'll use iOS to do this: Samsung's French partner to recyc...
Jan 20, 20253 min read4
An example of HACS: Adaptive Lighting
In the previous post of this focus, we replaced Philips Hue automation with the one from Home Assistant. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn't automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day, a feature Ph...
Dec 26, 20243 min read3
The Home Assistant model
Home Assistant is a massive beast. It can be overwhelming for a newcomer; it was for me. In this post, I want to describe the underlying model of Home Assistant, which is a good entry point for your home automation journey. The biggest issue in descr...
Dec 1, 20244 min read8