Home-Assistant.io Reviews and details

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• Working on a custom smart home app..

  HA is Home Assistant. You should check it out. Mushroom is an add on to HA’s interface that adds sone different style “cards” than what it comes with. Source: 10 months ago

• standalone systems?

  Yes, there's Home Assistant that can work completely off-line. You can find multitude tutorials on youtube on how to set it up, even using cheap solutions like Raspberry PI. Source: 11 months ago

• Turned my old 10-year-old android tablet into a wall clock/weather station

  I'm going to suggest- you ever heard of Home Assistant? It's a really useful home automation tool you could integrate with weather and clock on a dashboard. As well, you could use it to control smart devices. Source: 11 months ago

• has anyone done the big move from Spotify or other to Plex?

  As for the "what is playing" detection on my google minis. This is done with "https://home-assistant.io/". Source: about 1 year ago

• looking for a decently cheap zigbee hube

  The method that seems to work most reliability with all devices and all ecosystems is a Zigbee2MQTT software hub running on a computer alongside Home Assistant. The Z2M project has a list of compatible USB dongles which are typically around $20-30 (The Sonoff being a good one) but you still need a server (i.e. a small computer like a thin client or raspberry pi) and install and configure the software, so this... Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking to migrate to Proxmox. Never tried it before, and could use some pointers. (Home Assistant, Docker).

  When I first started using Home Assistant, I was running it on raspbian (supervised), and later HassOS on that same Pi. Eventually, I got myself an intel NUC (8i5BEH) and went with a Docker install of Home Assistant, largely because I wanted to learn more about Docker. Source: about 1 year ago

• Whats the best smart home hub?

  And to clarify not Google Home Assistant. https://home-assistant.io. Source: over 1 year ago

• Tracking software help

  Might be something that Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io) can see and integrate. Source: over 1 year ago

• Starting the smart home journey.

  If you are a tech person, definitely take a look at HomeAssistant! Get notifications to your phone and off course, remotely control the system as well. here's an easy guideto get started for HA as an alarm system to get familiar with how HA works. add more devices such as cameras, fire, water leaks, whatever later. Source: over 1 year ago

• Too many apps, too many smart things

  Https://home-assistant.io is the answer to all your problems (and possibly the source of new, even more complex ones). Source: over 1 year ago

• Questions regarding full local and open-source solution (noob)

  I use Home Assistant https://home-assistant.io/ for any automations I want with my lights. Source: over 1 year ago

• Can I prevent myself from turning phone off?

  If you have it already or would be fine with setting it up, a smart home system could really help you out here. I personally run Home Assistant. A couple of apartments ago I used it in combination with a smart bulb to trigger a simulated sunset 15 minutes before my alarm went off. The bulb would slowly go from a weak red light to a bright white-ish light over the course of 15 minutes, and then my alarm would go... Source: over 1 year ago

• Controlling electric wall heater

  I use a PI running home-assistant.io and either using a Z-wave dongle or hardwired, you can use a temperature sensor that is monitored by the PI that will turn on/off the heater from user selected setpoints. that can be a dial on your HA screen. If you get the app (~$5 a month) you can see and manage your entire home IoT network. Great Stuff! Source: over 1 year ago

• Replacing Nest cameras, look for replacements with a specific feature

  So I’m able to do this with a UniFi G4 instant connected to USG Pro. I get the HomeKit integration from HomeBridge in HomeAssistant. Https://ubnt.com Https://home-assistant.io. Source: over 1 year ago

• Hardwire switches compatible with Hue?

  Yes, I've done that. Check https://home-assistant.io and r/Homeassistant. Rest is up to your Google magic. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do I feel safe now that I'm living alone?

  In regards to cameras, I'd recommend wired cameras (that is, they're powered through mains power, not from battery). I say this because my two battery powered cameras (both Swann SWWHD-INTCAM) take about 5-15 seconds to boot up when you want to look at the live feed, even when they're on charge. Not really a deal breaker for most people, but it's frustrating having to wait through "Device is waking, please wait.."... Source: over 1 year ago

• POLL: NGINX 101 Hands on Labs/Webinar

  Did you know that nginx is the preferred reverse-proxy setup for Home-Assistant? However, the community typically gets by with community created tutorials like this one. Source: over 1 year ago

• Smart dimmers that control Wi-Fi smart lights via Google/Alexa?

  The only ones I've found are Wi-Fi unfortunately. I guess maybe I can use home-assistant.io though and try to find hub-based solutions. Source: over 1 year ago

• Compared to DD-WRT

  If you only have a handful of devices and don’t want the headache of redesigning your network. A single subnet flat network is perfectly fine. Just harder to control. Personally I run a lot of servers at home like Home Assistant and also have a lot of IoT devices and cameras we don’t want talking to the internet. Source: almost 2 years ago

• First time ever redirected to Porn site since I have got FWG.

  First I have DHCP give out The DNS of an internet AdGuard server I have running inside Home Assistant. It does initial checks and filters most stuff before going to the Firewalla. I usually get about 5-10% of all traffic blocked there. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is this sale worth it??

  Https://home-assistant.io has all the useful info! But also check out their subreddit /r/homeassistant. Source: almost 2 years ago