In the world of home automation, precision and convenience often go hand in hand. So, when I found myself juggling multiple timers for my washing machine, dishwasher, and a custom 35-minute countdown, I knew there had to be a way to keep it all at a glance. Enter the Stream Deck – a nifty tool … [Read more…]
Recently I started playing around with Home Assistant, to make my home smart and display useful metrics on a dashboard, e.g. calendar events. A few days ago I noticed specific calendar events crash the Home Assistant integration for a day. I don’t think this is exclusive to my environment and may be a global issue. … [Read more…]
Setting up the environment During a current project I looked into HomeAssistant as a central component / hub for home automation. When starting out with HomeAssistant it is recommended to install the software either as a OS distribution (HASS OS) or run a supervised installation, which is just a couple of fancy bash scripts that … [Read more…]