Lights in our house come in several forms: Philips Hue LED lamps Innr LED lamps LED strip uplights & LED lights switched by Sonoff Basic modules Lights plugged into smart plugs Chan...
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Home Server: TITAN
I originally started with a QNAP server, then migrated to a FreeNAS server based on a “bare-metal” installation, then upgraded to TrueNAS. These ran self-contained Jails (like mini virtual machines...
Home Assistant : Dashboards
Dashboards are the GUI for Home Assistant and are very flexible. There are many standard display cards, and even more custom cards that can be downloaded for use. Install Custom Cards ISSUES ...
Home Assistant: Configuration - Alexa
I used the info at Nabu Casa to configure HASS to support Alexa: Sign up for Home Assistant Cloud at Nabu Casa. It costs £65 per year, but it is good to contribute to ongoing development of HAS...
Home Assistant : Configuration - Other Integrations
Various other integrations were added to process other devices around the home. File Editor add-on Go to Settings -> Add-ons, click Add-on Store Search for file editor, select and click I...
Home Assistant : Configuration - Zigbee
Zigbee is used by the Philips Hue and Innr smart lights, using a Philips Hue bridge. Unfortunately that bridge does not work with other non-light type Zigbee devices. In order to be able to use Aqa...
Home Assistant: Configuration - ESPHome
ESPHome is a system to configure ESP8266 / ESP32 devices through simple but powerful configuration files and to control the devices through Home Assistant. These include SONOFF switch devices, SONO...
Home Assistant: Configuration - Samba Share / Samba Backup
The Samba Share add-on allows the sharing of files in Home Assistant from other MacOS / Windows computers using the SMB protocol. The Samba Backup add-on allows backups of the Home Assistant config...
Home Assistant : Configuration - Node-RED
The Node-RED add-on allows automations to be configured using graphical flow-based programming, rather than using the YAML based automations in Home Assistant. Since I was familiar with the easy pr...
ARCHIVED: Install Plex Media Server on Docker
This install assumes that Docker has been installed previously, and extends the Docker stack created for the Traefik Reverse Proxy. Plex Media Server gives you one place to find and access all the...