Setting Up Let’s Encrypt with Node-Red & Home Assistant
Privacy is important in the smart home, and one of the primary reasons to use Home Assistant is because it is totally under control of the …
More Nodes for Home Automation: state-machine, actionflows, dashboard, statistics
I’m keeping a running list of useful nodes I’ve found for home automation. Here’s a couple of more I came across recently in the Node-Red library. …
Going Further with Home Automations in Node-Red
In my last post about using Node-Red to make automations with Home Assistant, I showed some very simple flows for turning lights on and off. While it …
Useful Sensor: Cardinal Wind Direction for Home Assistant
As someone who cycles to work most days, I keep a pretty close eye on the weather. One thing I like to know is which way …
Self Hosting: Setting up a Personal Wiki with DokuWiki
One of the most useful things I self host on my server is a personal wiki. I use it for note taking on projects, a journal, …
Useful Sensor: Bayesian Sleep Detection in Home Assistant
Sleep is not something I can directly observe in my smart home (at least not until I build that DIY bed sensor). It would be nice to …
Home Assistant: Making My Plants Talk with IoT Sensors and a Python Script
Living in an urban city without a garden, I have been exercising my green thumb by accumulating more and more houseplants. I have them tucked away …
Useful Sensor: Motion Last Seen & Meta Motion Sensor
You know what’s great about motion sensors? They are very, very cheap to build yourself. All it takes is an esp8266 module like the Wemos …
Basic Node-Red Flows for Automating Lighting with Home Assistant
Smart light bulbs are probably the first thing everyone getting into home automation buys. It is easy to see the applications for them – have the …
Auto-Downloading Youtube Videos for Plex Media Server with youtube-dl
Recently it appears Youtube has decided they want to become cable TV, complete with the unending commercials for American pharmaceuticals. Since I cannot stand watching any …