Tag: hass
My Node-Red Smart Alarm Clock with Snooze
Definitely one of my very favorite features of my smart house is my alarm clock. Which is funny because I am not a morning person at all and …
Automating Dumb Devices with Node-Red and Home Assistant
Here in coastal California, air conditioning is extremely uncommon. So during a recent heat wave, I got desperate and went down to the big box store …
Pi to NUC Part 1: Migrating Hass.IO to a Virtual Machine with Proxmox & Docker
As my Home Assistant setup has become increasingly complex, I’ve started to see the limitations of the Raspberry Pi platform. Graphs are slow, and the history …
The Cheapest WiFi Smart Switch: Flashing the Sonoff Basic
Setting up a smart home can be a costly affair, if every device needed an expensive proprietary smart switch you would spend quite a bit of …
Location Aware Notification Lights with Node-Red and IFTTT
I am in the habit of going on cooking sprees while listening to music… loudly. I only share one wall with a neighbor here in the …
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. …
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 …