Category: Smart Home
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Flashing Xiaomi BLE sensors and integrating it in Home Assistant
Flashing Xiaomi BLE sensors and integrating it in Home Assistant There is no such thing as ‘too much’ temperature and humidity sensors, right? So I bough another 5 Xiaomi Mi BLE sensors (in Nov. 2024) model LYWSD03MMC. I wanted to flash them OTA (over-the-air) with custom firmware as previous 7 sensor (bougth in 2022-23). But…
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Home Assistant and air quality – Ikea Vindstyrka
Home Assistant and air quality – Ikea Vindstyrka The problem I’d like to monitor air quality in my kitchen/dining room to ventilate the rooms more frequently. Sometimes I simply forget to open windows. But again, there is no problem really. I just like to play with IoT gadgets and spend money on something else than…
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The state of my Home Assistant in 2024
The state of my Home Assistant in 2024 Update (3. 12. 2024) – Misc integrations, Addons and HACS added. My #homeautomation journey started 4 yrs ago (2020) when I bought 1 Aqara #zigbee hub, 1 room temp. sensor and 1 smart socket (for controling the heating of the office). I started with Aqara app. with…
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Home Assistant gauge card – manually defined colours
Home Assistant gauge card – manually defined colours This post fits to #TIL (Today I learned) category. The ‘normal’ way to define colours in a ‘gauge’ card is by defining severity from UI gauge settings. There are only 4 colours available in a sequence: blue, green, yellow, red: Standard colours are defined using UI by…
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Make Glances run automatically after Raspberry Pi reboot
Run Glances at RBPI startup If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. In my previous post, I struggled to run glances on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. After a first reboot I stared to my Home…
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Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024
Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024 If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. Few years ago (2019?) it was like: And voila, I could monitor CPU, disk etc. of my Raspberry remotely via…
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Selfhosting – ductape and sticks all the way down
#selfhosting is a beautiful thing because of the one and only reason: when I decide, I can just turn off that old laptop(s) that is(are) cosplaying servers and I’m gone from the internet. Ok, probably my content will remain on Internet Archive. Scrapers also scraped my content so… my dissapearance is probably just an illusion,…
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Waking up the screen of FireHD tablet using YAKK app
If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. I replaced my current setup of waking up the #FireHD (#HomeAssistant dashboard). A while ago I complained about issues related to waking up the FireHD tablet screen when I…
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Who’s on my network?
(#WatchYourLAN) If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: I’m just curious what is connected to my home network, because it’s over 30 devices. Some have static IPs, some dynamic. I don’t recognize devices by…
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E-ink info screen at the front door
So I built a small E-ink (ESP32) info screen for the front door. Link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: When leaving the house, it’s nice to see some information displayed at the door, like temperatures, weather and messages for the kids etc. Actually, there is no…