I’ve invested tons of hours in our Home Assistant installation, so it would be a disaster to loose all the work if something goes wrong. Home Assistant has backup functionality build in. It can take full backups and snapshots, but it stores the backup files on the local machine running…
Tag: integration
Get Home Assistant talking through Sonos speaker using Googles Text-To-Speech service
In our house we have different automations that use our Sonos speakers to say something. For example if Aurora (our daughter) opens her window, the speaker in the kitchen tells us. Our alarm also warns us if any intrusion is registred at night when we are sleeping. To do this…
Updating Home Assistant without anything breaking
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…