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To receive notifications on your mobile phone the Pushover service can be used. It requires a Pushover account and the Pushover integration in Home Assistant. Some easy configuration is required before you can use Home Assistant Automations to sent automatically notifications.
Home Assistant can be used to inform you about the garbage pick up dates / waste collection schedule on your dashboard. Within the Netherlands a lot of municipalities are using the AfvalWijzer website to inform their citizens which waste container/bin to put alongside the street.
When accessing your Raspberry Pi 4 remotely via a VNC viewer or Teamviewer it is very likely the screen size shown has a very low resolution and hence is unusable. This can be corrected by modifying the Raspberry Pi configuration file.
To monitor the triggering of Home Assistant automations a card can be added to a dashboard showing an overview of triggered automations in the past 24 hours. On a similar way a Lovelace UI dashboard card can be created to show disabled Home Assistant automations.
Integrating the Shelly Flood sensor with Home Assistant is easy, but unfortunately only the temperature and battery sensors work as expected. The flood sensor itself does not work out of the box as it remains in the status “Dry”. This can be overcome by using the MQTT protocol as explained in this article.
Steps how to fix the Home Assistant Z-Wave connection issue with error “Failed to connect: Cannot connect to host” for an USB attached Z-Wave controller.
Raspberry Pi boards are hard to get currently in 2022 and a lot of stores state that new supply will arrive in 2023, unless you are willing to pay an excessive price (2 to 4 times the price a year ago).
We managed to get 2 Raspberry PI 4’s with 8Gb RAM within a few days within The Netherlands. In this article the cause for the supply shortage is explained and how we managed to get two Raspberry Pi 4 (8Gb) units.
Today we updated the site structure to add a Raspberry Pi 4 section, which in near future will contain articles w.r.t. the Raspberry Pi 4.
Today we updated the site structure to add a Home Assistant section, which in near future will contain articles w.r.t. Home Assistant.
Prevent accidentally initiating an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 by blocking it with some easy to add Windows registry settings. This tweak works for all Windows 10 versions and will only allow Windows updates till the provided Windows 10 version.
Adding a execution delay to a Homey Flow action card seems to be impossible, as there is no action card available with this functionality. It is easy to implement if you know where to look for this functionality as it is a little bit hidden.
Devices within the domotica software Homeseer can be controlled by Homey Pro, for example via Homey Flows. Remote control of Homeseer devices is done by making use of the JSON standard, a standardised text based data interchange format that uses human readable text to store and transmit data. Controlling Homeseer devices with Homey is not complicated.