As one of my previous posts showed off, I made a wall mounted Home Assistant Dashboard. It was based off of the official 7″ Raspberry Pi Foundation touch screen. I designed the enclosure myself, mostly working from the touchscreen dimensions here and then some rough measurements on the rest of the BOM. Bill of Material […]
This post is coming out before the accompanying hardware post, which is a little backwards as it shows off the finished hardware… but oh well. This dashboard has been running for a few months, but unfortunately my SD card got corrupted and I didn’t have a backup. So now I’m actually documenting the set up […]
Looking to add some automations that depend on who’s home or that are started when someone either gets home or leaves. To start, I’m using the Ubiquiti Unifi WAP component to track wireless devices like my phone. Hopefully I’ll have a post up soon about the set-up of my new network equipment. This component relies on […]
Picking a smart lock: There are a fair number of smart lock options out there, and unfortunately not a lot of them are well reviewed. I was on the fence for a long time trying to decide which system to try out. I ultimately ended up with the August Pro smart lock for a few […]
Well, it’s been 3 months without any posts. I bought an August Pro smart lock and started a post about integrating it with home assistant. It started off alright and then went off the rails and I lost all momentum. So now, 3 months and 6 HA updates later I suspect if I update HA […]
The last post ended with me setting up a z-wave switch with the intention of using it to control the power of my 3D printer, so that’s what I’ll cover here. I’ll also set up another Pi with Octoprint so that I can send gcode to the printer remotely. Home Assistant – Z-wave Switch with […]
I bought this switch from Monoprice with the intention of using it with my 3D printer. Partly so that I can turn it off and on remotely, but also so that I can see how much energy it uses. It is easy enough to set up, follow the inclusion mode instructions here and plug the z-wave […]
Another few weeks have gone by and a few more updates have come out. Right now I’m sitting at version 0.59.1 and version 0.60.0 is out, so let’s give it a go: sudo hassbian-config upgrade home-assistant After a few minutes the HA interface comes back online. Check out the about page to confirm the update […]
The motivation behind this was to recreate a feature of Melissa’s aunts security system. Mel always liked that the doors in her aunts house all triggered a chime to play in the house when they were opened. This is a small feature of their alarm system and should be fairly easy to re-create with Home […]
Another thing I’d like HA to do would be to slowly turn the lights on in the bedroom when I need to get up. I could tie it into my phone alarm, but for now I’ll use voice control as it’s fairly easy. This can be done a few ways: Automations: For automations, we need […]