Audio Handoff with Sonos Speakers
With Apple’s introduction of the HomePod Mini they touted a feature which lets you hand-off music and audio between iPhone to your HomePod simply by bringing your iPhone close. A handy feature to have! (Video clip credit to Marques…
Smart Motorized Shades for Under $100 with Home Assistant
I’ve wanted to have motorized shades for a while now, and have not found an ‘off-the-shelf’ product that has the features I need, while remaining at an affordable price. The closest product that I’ve found is the IKEA ‘Fyrtur’ smart blinds. However, when pricing out…
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Part 2: Integrate Telegraf with Home Assistant Using Node-RED and MQTT
In the first part of this tutorial, we set up Telegraf and MQTT to transmit our computer temperature data from our host machine. If you have not yet read that tutorial, you can check it out here! In this second part, we are going to…
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Tutorial: Home Assistant Presence Detection with iOS and [monitor]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNDpAwht5OI&feature=youtu.be First, I need to acknowledge that there’s numerous methods to get presence detection with Home Assistant, each with their own pros and cons. When evaluating the various detection methods, I focused on three key aspects: The detection needs to be reliable and consistent. When…
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Tutorial: Advanced iOS Notifications with Home Assistant
Basic Notification Enhancements The following examples will all be using the Developer Tools, Service calls. We will be calling the notify.mobile_app_xx service, replacing xx with the iOS mobile device name. If this is unclear, take a look at the first part of this tutorial! Sometimes…
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