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Dec/24Home Assistant: Home Modes
Overview A quick walk through of how I use home mode in Home Assistant. This is not a tutorial but more of guide and idea of what I use them for. Dropdown / Input Select Helper I use a helper … Continue reading
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Jul/24Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2024
Overview A minor tweak to the Home Assistant CI/CD pipeline worth mentioning. The deployment process now replaces public call to a webhook to a VPN based solution. This comes in the form of Tailscale who also provide an example github … Continue reading
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May/24Home Assistant Constantly Refreshing
Update This has been removed in v2.11.2 and will fail to start if the configuration below is left in. I was seeing constant page refreshes on Home Assistant. In the end, it was changes to Traefik v2.11 and how it … Continue reading
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Apr/24Monitoring Boiler Flow Temperature
Overview I have a basic gas boiler in a conventional setup. After watching Heat Geek channel and their videos on heat pumps, I too wanted to look at how efficient my boiler was running. I did not want to make … Continue reading
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Nov/23MariaDB/MySQL Database Size Sensor In Home Assistant
A quick little tip to get the size of your database into Home Assistant. The example below will get the Home Assistant database size from MySQL. This should also work for MariaDB using the Recorder integration. Assuming the database schema … Continue reading
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Aug/23Salt Level For Water Softener With ESPHome
overview We got a water softener installed near the water mains coming into the house. It’s a “dumb” softener so that it does not rely on using electricity. This means it will continue to work in a power outage but … Continue reading
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May/23Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2023
Overview Previously, I was using TravisCI to perform checks on any changes to Home Assistant files. Since then, TravisCI has introduced caps and pricing plans and on the free tier I ran out of credits very quickly which broke the … Continue reading
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Mar/23Central Heating Graph With Home Assistant
Overview I have created a graph to show temperature for each room in the house broken down to level/floor they are on so I can see how well heated each room is. I don’t have any smart thermostatic radiator valves … Continue reading