Following up on my previous post about the Home Assistant controlled garage door, I want to show my simple solution to controlling a light with HA. My house is a few years away from its centennial birthday. With that age come some interesting “features”, like knob and tube wiring, and always on lights…
Leave a CommentHome Assistant is the main method I use for opening my garage (other than the integrated remote in my car). I’ve had this setup for the better part of a year and thought I would share it in case it helps anyone else control their garage door. This hardware has…
57 CommentsXiaomi has a great line of pretty high quality but very inexpensive hardware that you can use in your smart home. Right now I’m using their plant, door, water, and temperature sensors, as well as their curtain motors. These plant sensors seem to be the only Xiaomi sensor that I…
10 CommentsI was having a tough time figuring out how to downgrade the firmware of my AP that I flashed with UniFi. After some googling around, I stumbled upon this thread that got me headed in the right direction. In short, here are the steps: Confirm you have no devices…
1 CommentThis morning I wake up and I’m missing my normal notifications and I couldn’t pull up my HA instance. I restarted the container from my phone but that didn’t solve the issue. I then checked it via the LAN IP and it was working fine. So this made me poke…
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