To ensure a reliable backup strategy I’m using two Proxmox Backup Servers (PBS) on 2 different locations: The garage in my house where most of the infrastructure is, and a garden house on the same property. The garden house is…
Category: Home Assistant
I have made automations to stop charging Phone, Tablet and smartwatch at 80% battery capacity. I hope to increase the life-time of the batteries by doing this. I was having the problem that the battery level for my Pixel watch…
I have to set out the garbage bin every sunday evening, and want to be notified if I have not done this by 23:00 (as in I have forgotten it). I earlier wrote about how I do this in another…
Our mailbox has 2 doors: Big door for parcels, and a smaller one for envelopes. I have set up some automations that in most cases lets me not only know when something was put into my mailbox, but also lets…
I have a few automations where I need to know whether it’s day, evening or night. Home Assistant have sensor for the sun, so it knows the times for sunrise and sunset. Evening can easily be calculated using sunset and…
I have been tearing my hair out the last couple of weeks while trying to set up a nice Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant. When I thought everything was working fine, I suddenly got consumption values and cost multiplied by…
Is your energy provider not giving easy access to energy prices? Costly, difficult or impossible to get access to an API? Tired of checking web sites for updated information, or missing out on changes silently published? Change Detection might be…
To keep track of energy cost and consumption in Home Assistant, an excellent tool to use is the Energy Dashboard. One thing a bit tricky with this is to track daily subscription cost. Most subscriptions are monthly, and I have…
Our garage door opener is a Somfy Dexxo Pro that is communicating via RTS. This means there is no return information from the motor on whether the garage door is open or closed. In Home Assistant the Garage Door Device…
We have an Itron Water Meter with an Everblu Cyble optical reader. The water company is regularly (every 2-3 months) passing in the street with their car, and a computer sends a radio signal to every meter (using a unique…