One of my primary and very important goals working with Home Assistant is that I want to be able to update Home Assistant at any time without anything breaking in my setup, for example integrations, automations, scripts etc. I simply don’t want to have to do rework after an update,…
Split your configuration up in multiple files
After some time doing a lot of stuff in configuration.yaml, I found that I needed to make a much more clean setup, where things were split up in multiple files instead of all automations being in automations.yaml etc. Basically my configuration.yaml and automations.yaml files contained thousands of lines making them…
Integration to the IHC platform
Our house has an IHC installation, which should give a smarter home. It does, but not as smart as I want it to be, but lets be fair. IHC is an old platform developed for several years ago before smart home was a thing. One of the reasons why I…
secrets.yaml – what is it for?
Home Assistant has a secrets.yaml file in the root folder of the configuration. The purpose of this file is to store usernames and passwords instead of having these set directly in the different YAML files. You can also store other things in the file, like IP-addresses, tokens etc. In your…
YAML, do you want to play with me?
Home Assistants configuration is build on YAML files, which many systems and platforms are using today when configuring. You can read much more about YAML on Wikipedia. In this post I will give you my experience with YAML, and hopefully give you some good advice if you are going to…
Good add-ons
After the installation of Home Assistant, the next step was to setup the different integrations to the smart home products we have. There is two ways of setting up integrations: Setup through the user interface (preferable)This is the best way to secure your installation when upgrading along the way.The team…
Choice of hardware
An important thing when using Home Assistant is to select what hardware it should run on. A lot of people is running it on a Raspberry Pi, while others had chosen other alternative as a laptop, a mini computer, like an Intel NUC, or on their own server as a…
First post…
July 1st 2019 my girlfriend and me got our house in Viborg. The house was build i 2007 and was installed with IHC (ELKO Living system in Norway and Sweden). My previous house wasn’t that smart, but at that point I used Philips Hue to create some automations with the…