Video Is your smart home split across ecosystems? MatterBridge turns your existing Home Assistant entities into native‑looking Matter devices so you can control Zigbee, Z‑Wave, Wi‑Fi, and MQTT devices from Apple Home, Google Home, or SmartThings. This guide walks you through setup plus copy‑paste configs you can use immediately. What MatterBridge Does Requirements 1) Install…
After taking a year off being crazy busy, I am going to try this whole blogging thing again. I hope to be able to start making new videos in the coming weeks. Right now I am trying to get some posts created and get some video shot. I have quite a few items in the…
https://youtu.be/QNiEH77bKO0 Code for Node-Red This little block of code is used in Node-Red as a part of Home Assistant. It works by sending a timestamp every minute which is compared to input datetime we created earlier. If those two match, then it fires the command to turn on the light to green. Code for YAML…
References / Resources Home Asisstant Supervised on RPi 4 – https://community.home-assistant.io/t/install-supervised-supervisor-on-raspberry-pi4-with-docker-installation/291186/4 Home Assistant Supervised GitHub – https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer#supported-machine-types Kiosk Browser for Ubuntu: https://obrienlabs.net/setup-kiosk-ubuntu-chromium/ Up to date installer: https://peyanski.com/how-to-install-home-assistant-supervised-official-way/#Home_Assistant_Supervised_method Install Home Assistant with Docker So first we need to make sure our system is up to date sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Then we need…
As mentioned in the video I have included the automations here for the three examples I showed in the video. Of course make sure that your entity IDs match up with your system. Display Lock Status This code will take the event label and push it to our helper to be able to be displayed…
Favorite HACS Components In my video, I mentioned that I have a number of favorite HACS integrations and Lovelace UI elements. All of these elements are available in the HACS store. NWS Alerts https://github.com/finity69x2/nws_alerts I mentioned this in my Severe Weather alerts video. This is the central component that pulls down alerts from the National…