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My production Proxmox-server is never really running on idle. Frigate Video Surveillance and Home Assistant is pretty much keeping the server at around 8-10% CPU usage. 24 hours average power consumption has been around 50-54 Watts. A few factors that…
I have put a Bluetooth Light Energy (BLE) Beacon on my trash can, and use the signal strength to determine if the distance between my Bluetooth unit and the beacon has changed. I have tried various solutions to read the…
With a little bit of planning when setting up the various sensors to be used in energy consumption tracking in Home Assistant, the Energy Dashboard can be a great tool. Depending on where you live and what sensors you have…
At home I rarely walk around with my phone in the hand. In order to get information from Home Assistant I have a wall mounted tablet in the bathroom, and a Google Nest Home in the corridor that I pass…
Initially I started using Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnel as an Addon in Home Assistant, with the configuration of the connector done in Home Assistant. This worked fine most of the time, but obviously caused problems when Home Assistant was restarted, down for maintenance, etc.