After my previous post on having Synology DSM installed as a VM on VMWare Exsi, I wanted to test Synology Photos. I therefore imported around 6000 pictures to see how it worked. After the upload my People section in the Albums area didn’t work and never found any faces. This…
Tag: configuration
Setting a default theme in Home Assistant for all users
Sometimes I come across some nice themes for Home Assistant, and when I have used them myself for a period of time, I like to push them to all users in our Home Assistant. Default each user can change the theme in their user settings, and there is no general…
Nextcloud behind Nginx proxy
I’m using Nextcloud to share and backup my private files. Nextcloud is software that works like Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive etc., but in this case I host the Nextcloud service and the files on my private server. I made a general installation on a Debian VM. I host other…
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…
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…