Home automation

How to install Home Assistant on a mini PC, like my silent MeLE Quieter 4C. With the BIOS settings, a backup that also lives off the device, and the apps…

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I let Claude write and review my Home Assistant automations and build my dashboards. Simply through the chat, with packages and YAML. A guide for anyone who has no experience…

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With the official Anthropic integration, you talk to your house in plain language. What it brings, how to set it up, and why my energy control deliberately works without AI.

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Home battery fire safety in practice: why I reported my battery to my insurer, what the fire service advises and how six interconnected X-Sense smoke alarms warn me, also in…

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My garden gets water based on soil moisture, not on the calendar. This is how I control GIEX Zigbee irrigation timers and a Gardena water distributor from Home Assistant.

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I bought the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and connected it to Gemini and ChatGPT. What the device can do, how to set it up with Home Assistant Cloud, and…

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In October my screens opened and closed all day long. The cause wasn’t a sensor, but the way the automation was set up. This is how I rebuilt it with…

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Our new Hardol screens have Somfy motors and are connected to a Connexoon. This is how you link them to Home Assistant in a few minutes, with up, down and…

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You build an alarm system with Home Assistant from door and window contacts, motion sensors and a siren on Zigbee or Z-Wave, plus Alarmo. Which parts you need, how to…

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Besides Zigbee, I also use Z-Wave in Home Assistant. Why two protocols, how the Aeotec Z-Stick 7 works with Z-Wave JS, and what to watch out for.

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I started with a Fibaro Home Center 2 about fifteen years ago. Which Fibaro devices I used, why I switched to Home Assistant after all, what hardware that took and…

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