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Restart or shutdown your Proxmox node from Home Assistant automation
There is a UPS monitoring through NUT configured in my Home Assistant. So I decided my Home Assistant could shut down my homelab servers on a low UPS battery.
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Monitor USB UPS connected to Synology NAS in Home Assistant
There is a lot of automation you can do with this data, but today I want to write up a short guide on how to safely get the information from the UPS connected to your NAS via USB into the Home Assistant.
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What's up Docker? is like Watchtower but with UI and Home Assistant integration
What do you want the most when it gets to the notifications about new images available for your containers? I think the answer is consistency. Getting notifications by email or Whatsapp doesn’t look logical when Home Assistant has its own persistent notifications and powerful actionable notifications in the companion
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Updating Home Assistant in Docker from Lovelace UI just like in Home Assistant OS
The Docker installation method becomes very popular among Home Assistant users. One of the downsides of the Docker installation method is the absence of update notifications and updates with a single button click. Today we will try to fix this with the power of Named Pipes (Whaaat??). Disclaimer. This is
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Automatic backups of Home Assistant in Docker: rsync and rclone
There are many ways to backup your Home Assistant instance, but today we will review a simple script that runs on your server and does local and remote backups. Well, the core of this method is not just a script, but two very powerful and useful Linux command line utilities:
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A simple yet powerful alternative for Studio Code Server for Home Assistant in Docker: Visual Studio Code + SSH
Visual Studio Code in a browser aka Studio Code Server is a very comfortable way to edit Home Assistant configuration files. But did you know you can use the Visual Studio Code desktop application on any PC to manage your home server remotely? Likely you have an SSH server running
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Home Assistant in Docker #4: Add-ons. MQTT and Zigbee2MQTT
In the current post series, I’m describing the path I took from a regular Home Assistant setup on Home Assistant Blue to a home server with Docker and various software. Assuming we already have our Home Assistant in Docker up and running, it is time to add some addons
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Home Assistant in Docker #3: docker-compose.yml for Home Assistant and MariaDB explained
In the current post series, I’m describing the path I took from a regular Home Assistant setup on Home Assistant Blue to a home server with Docker and various software. Assuming we already have ODROID-N2+ with Debian Buster and Docker setup, our next step would be bringing Home Assistant
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Home Assistant in Docker #2: Installing Docker on ODROID-N2+ with Debian Buster
In the current post series, I’m describing the path I took from a regular Home Assistant setup on Home Assistant Blue to a home server with Docker and various software. Assuming we already have ODROID-N2+ with Debian Buster, our next step would be Docker installation. Previous posts series: * Debian
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Home Assistant in Docker #1: Debian Buster on ODROID-N2+ aka Home Assistant Blue
I ordered Home Assistant Blue on the day it was announced at Home Assistant Conference on December 13, 2020. It was exactly what I wanted – powerful hardware without any noise. And nice-looking, of course. It was a great speed improvement compared to Raspberry Pi 3B+, but this hardware can handle
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b-parasite DIY soil moisture sensor gets ZigBee and Zigbee2MQTT support
Did you remember a b-parasite project? It now has a ZigBee firmware sample you can integrate into Home Assistant through Zigbee2MQTT! Usually, smart soil moisture sensors use BLE or even WiFi for data transfer. But we want ZigBee, right? Why we want it is a topic for a separate post,
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Home Assistant Lovelace mobile dashboard example
I hate to dig into thousands of lines of someone’s YAML code and think I’m not the only one. That’s why I decided to tear down my Lovelace dashboard here for everyone who wants to reuse its components or get some inspiration for their dashboards. My Lovelace