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Home Assistant: Add Camera Snapshots to Push Notifications

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.

Fully Offline Video Doorbell for Home Assistant

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 - 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 - Blue Iris Walkthrough

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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.

Car Presence Sensor with Home Assistant and Last Watch AI

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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

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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 a full walkthrough on setting up

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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 setup guide. 1. Detection Profiles The

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Introducing: Last Watch AI

Last Watch is an all-in-one tool for creating If-Then automations based on AI computer vision.

Camera Motion Event Notifications with Locally-Processed AI

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 Assistant + Nginx: Unencrypted Local Traffic

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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