proxmox
Home Assistant - Better Proxmox Monitoring with InfluxDB
In this post I will show how I used the External Metric Server feature in Proxmox to set up the best possible integration between Proxmox and Home Assistant.
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paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx Push Notifications
Here is a guide on how I set up mobile push notifications to my android phone whenever a document is consumed in paperless-ngx.
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Home Assistant: Add Camera Snapshots to Push Notifications
In this post I will share an easy way to add real-time camera snapshots to your Home Assistant push notifications. This is a great way to level up your push notifications, allowing you to actually see what is happening at the instant a notification was pushed.
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.
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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.
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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 set up on my driveway running on Blue Iris. By using two detection profiles in Last Watch, I was able
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...
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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 filtered by locally-processed computer vision so that alerts are only generated by objects such as cars or people. I will
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 terms what a reverse proxy is, and what it is doing under the hood. Finally, I will show how I
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 is protected with RAID 1. This setup gives me good protection against all hardware and software failures, and it gives
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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 a python script running on the host system to periodically send the CPU temp to Home Assistant. Last week, I
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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 I'll show how I exposed the backlight of my crappy old Android tablet as a Light in Home Assistant using