1. Introduction
This article provides links to other websites and discussions from the Home Assistant community forum leading to ideas for our own Home Assistant setup. The links are categorised as much as possible.
2. Useful general sites
- Reddit Home Assistant forum
- www.vcloudinfo.com smarthome
Nice ideas, but lot of advertisements - www.slackerlabs.com
Articles with some high level ideas about home automation. - www.awesome-ha.com
- www.smarthomescene.com
- www.huizebruin.nl (Dutch)
3. General ideas
3.1 Counters, statistics, summations etc.
- HA community: Counts the lights on
How to count the number of lights which are on. - Count number of times switch is on or duration
3.2 Dashboard
- Heating flowscheme
- Kitchen dashboard dryer, washing machine etc.
Temperature sensors dashboard base on map of house
github: Home Assistant Dashboard project - Map of house in 3D + how it was done
Reddit Home Assistant: I think I’m finally done with my dashboard… - Energy monitoring
HA manual: Energy cards - Mushroom cards
- Minimalist theme + cards
- Dashboard example. Security, mold indicator, computer info card, coffee machine by JamesMcCarthy79
- Reddit Home Assistant: I am a little addicted to lovelace atm
- Github: JamesMcCarthy79 / Home-Assistant-Config
3.2.1 Weather dashboard
3.2.2 Special dates
- Github: anniversaries
- www.smarthomescene.com: Track Important Dates In Home Assistant
- HA community: Determining how many days until a date is reached
- HA community: “Days Until” Template sensor – help needed
- HA community: Template Sensor for days remaining?
- HA community: Days until event I google Calendar
- HA community: Template Guide: Days away from calendar event
3.3 Webhooks
3.4 Home Assistant system
- www.vloudinfo.com: How to Enable the Home Assistant System Health Component
- HA community: Better looking device tracker
3.5 Themes
4. Specific subject ideas
4.1 Sump pump monitoring
- Creating sensor to count/monitor duration of pump running
HA community: Tracking Sump Pump (Idle + Run with details) - Hardware options for monitoring water level etc.
Comprehensive Sump Pump Monitoring
4.2 Measuring water level
We want to measure in near future the waterlevel of our fish ponds to automate topping it up in summer.
- Using water level sensor normally used in water tanks/fuel tanks for a campervan.
www.van-automation.com: Monitoring water level - HA community: Water tank – water level sensor using fuel/water sender and esphome
- ultrasone sensor Mopeka TD40
- ultrasonic sensor + ESP32
www.ezmation.com: Sump Pump Water Level - Hardware setup + configuring binary / history stats sensors
www.techdout.dev: Smart Sump Pump System - FLoat switches on different levels
www.mecied.com: Smart Rain Barrel - JSN-SR04 waterproof ultrasonic sensor with ESP8266
www.makeuseof.com: Build a Water Level Sensor With an Ultrasonic Sensor and Home Assistant - Wemos D1 mini / Tasmota / MQTT + home made level sensor
reddit Home Assistant: Sump pit / Sump pump water level sensor – using Wemos – Tasmota and Home Assistant – Switch-Relay question
4.3 Tumble dryer
- Tumble dryer/washing machine images with indication progress + code ideas etc
- ?
4.4 Hardware
- Automatic valve controller for water pipes
- Aqara people presence sensor FP2
- HA community: Aqara new people presence sensor FP2
- Reddit Aqara: FP2 presence detection function settings (schematic)
4.5 Battery status monitoring
- UI Lovelace Minimalist battery card with charging animation
Github: Battery Card
4.6 Alarm / security
- HA Community: MQTT Alarm Control Panel for Raspberry Pi and Android
- HA manual: Manual MQTT Alarm Control Panel
- www.slacker-labs.com: How I Secured My Home Using Home Assistant – part one and part two.
4.7 Energy & water consumption monitoring
- doe-duurzaam.nl: Dynamische energieprijzen inlezen met Home Assistant: zo doe je dat
- www.huizebruin.nl: Vitens waterprijs toevoegen aan home assistant
4.8 Mold indicator
- Home Assistant manual: mold indicator
- Home Assistant community: Need help with mold_indicator sensor
- Home Assistant community: Plotting dewpoint – using the mold indicator integration
- Reddit Home Assistant: Mold Indicator Sensor Integration – What does the sensor value mean?
- Github: mold_risk_index
4.9 Mail and packages tracking
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