Home Automation
ESPHome for Beginners: Your First Sensor on the ESP32
ESPHome entry step by step: set up an ESP32 as a local Home Assistant sensor, configured via YAML …
Your First Home Assistant Automation: Trigger, Condition, Action
Home Assistant automations explained clearly: the pattern of trigger, condition and action, built step by step in the …
Home Assistant Basics: Entities, Devices & Integrations
The mental model of Home Assistant explained clearly: integration, device, entity and area – how they relate and …
Installing Home Assistant: HA OS, Container or Core?
The four Home Assistant installation variants (HA OS, Supervised, Container, Core) honestly compared, with a decision path and …
Automatic ventilation by PM2.5: a Home Assistant automation
A Home Assistant automation that switches an air purifier/ventilation by PM2.5: threshold + hysteresis (on at 35, off …
GitLab CI for ESPHome: Automatically Build, Test, and Deploy Firmware
How to automatically build, validate, and roll out ESPHome firmware via OTA to devices in a GitLab CI …
Particulate Matter Sensor PMS5003T with ESP32 and ESPHome
Monitoring air quality in our living spaces is becoming increasingly important, especially in times when environmental awareness and …
Heating control to a new level
In the world of Smart Home, it's not uncommon for us to rely on various integrations and components …
Home Assistant OS in KVM Qemu
Home Assistant OS in a KVM/QEMU VM on Linux combines the full add-on support of a dedicated system …