blue-iris Fully Offline Video Doorbell for Home Assistant Today I am sharing my setup for a fully offline video doorbell in Home Assistant. The camera, motion sensor, and doorbell are all integrated over local IP.
home-assistant Home Assistant - Better Blue Iris Integration In this post, I will show how I greatly improved the performance of my Blue Iris cameras in Home Assistant. Rather than using the camera component, I am using iframes to directly embed the UI3 interface into Lovelace.
Last Watch AI Update - v1.1 Released It has been about 4 months since Last Watch AI was first introduced. I received a lot of great feedback from the community and today I am finally releasing a new major version. Full details below. Last Watch AI - Release 1.1.1
last-watch-ai Last Watch AI - Blue Iris Walkthrough In this post I will walk through setting up Last Watch AI to process motion events from Blue Iris. I will show how to feed motion alerts from BI into Last Watch, and how to trigger recordings in BI if certain objects are detected.
home-assistant Car Presence Sensor with Home Assistant and Last Watch AI This guide will show how to set up a vehicle presence sensor in Home Assistant using some key new features in Last Watch. In this example, I have a camera
Last Watch AI - Extend Automations with Node-RED Last Watch is a standalone application for creating if-then automations based on AI object detection. Last Watch comes with a few automations out of the box which allow you to do simple things like send a Telegram photo message if a person is detected
home-automation Last Watch AI - Ubuntu Installation and Upgrade Guide The preferred method to install Last Watch on Ubuntu is directly from the source code. Installing from source makes it much easier to upgrade in the future by just pulling the latest code and rebuilding. Alternatively, you can install using the official releases. For
home-automation Last Watch - Getting Started Guide This guide will introduce the key concepts and features of Last Watch by walking through a very basic setup. More advanced features will also be introduced at the end of this guide. If you have not installed Last Watch yet, please refer to the
home-automation Introducing: Last Watch AI Last Watch is an all-in-one tool for creating If-Then automations based on AI computer vision.
Last Watch AI - Setup Guide for Windows Users This guide will walk through the entire setup of Last Watch on Windows Server 2019. These steps should also work for Windows 10. 1. DependenciesThe only dependency to install first is Docker, which will act as the host for Last Watch. Install Docker Desktop
home-automation Simple Node-RED Sub-flow to Look Up Username Here is a quick helper for Node-RED to fetch the Home Assistant user who triggered a state change...
home-assistant Camera Motion Event Notifications with Locally-Processed AI In this post I will share how I set up push notifications for my home security camera by integrating Home Assistant with Blue Iris. Motion events from the camera are
home-automation Home Assistant + Nginx: Unencrypted Local Traffic In this post, I will explain some of the hidden benefits of using a reverse proxy to keep local connections to Home Assistant unencrypted. Importantly, I will explain in simple
home-automation HASS + Proxmox: Automatic Backups to Synology NAS This week I checked off another goal for my Home Assistant setup – automated backups! Once a week, my entire Home Assistant VM is backed up to my Synology NAS which
home-assistant Proxmox + Home Assistant: Host System Hardware Monitoring This post will show how I set up CPU Temperature monitoring for Home Assistant running on a virtual machine in Proxmox. Virtualized hardware does not report temperatures, so I used
home-assistant Fully Kiosk Rest API Integration in Home Assistant 10/25/20 Update - The isScreenOn property has been changed to screenOn in later versions of Fully Kiosk. Check your JSON output for the correct name In this post
DIY Drawer Organizer Here's a quick and dirty build for organizing a messy drawer. The bottom is made from a 1/4" birch panel that I had left over from another project. The
home-assistant Alexa Voice Commands to Control Home Assistant The Amazon Echo is an impressive piece of technology hamstrung by it's shallow feature set and half-assed app store. The language recognition is a very powerful tool, but it's wasted
home-automation Using Tasker to Trigger Android Tasks from Home Assistant Tasker is the best automation app for Android devices. It can hook into practically any event and trigger whatever action you want. If you also install its companion app, AutoRemote,
Guitar DIY Pedal Board Builds After 2 years of building my own pedal boards, I have finally finished one that I'm completely happy with. This post is to showcase the earlier iterations, leading up to
home-automation Replacing Smart Hubs with Deconz Conbee II The primary reason I made the jump to Home Assistant was to break free from the unnecessary cloud services and spyware that sat between me and my smart devices. My
home-automation Xiaomi Vacuum Custom Reminders Part 3 In parts 1 and 2 we set up custom booleans to track when it's time to run or service the vacuum. In this post I'll show how I set up
home-automation Xiaomi Vacuum Custom Reminders Part 2 In my last post we saw how to set up HA to track and remind us when to empty our vacuum's dust bin and clean the brush head. Now we
home-automation Xiaomi Vacuum Custom Reminders Part 1 The first automation we needed was reminders to empty the dust bin and clean the brush head. We want to see dismissible notifications in the HA front-end and we want to see push notifications on our phone when service is due.
