Smart Home 
Integrating XMCOSY+ Outdoor String Lights with Home Assistant Locally
Home automation is incredible and obviously in my opinion, a lot of fun. However, I'm sure many of you would agree that buying a product for use in your…
Custom 3D Printed Mount for Fire Tablet (2015)
I have been enamored by the slew of Home Assistant Dashboard mounts lately and have wanted to make one for a while. I saw that the newer Amazon tablets…
UPDATE 2: A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative
The updates for this little device keep coming. Thanks to the folks leaving comments, we keep getting more information. I apologize for not noticing this…
UPDATE: A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative
So while the documentation in the initial post on how to compile and flash Tasmota to the ZB-GW03 works, there is a bug when using the Tasmotized device…
Controlling Home Assistant with an Old Remote
I, like many other I'm sure, have plenty of old infrared remotes laying around from TVs past. They were just collecting dust, but what if they could be…
Playing a sound directly from Home Assistant Operating System
This may sound like it should've been a trivial task to accomplish but took me way longer to solve than I anticipated. As I said it my first post, I…
How to Use Zigbee2Tasmota with Home Assistant
To follow up my last post, integrating a newly flashed Tasmota Zigbee Coordinator with Home Assistant has a third option besides ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT; it…
A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative
Many of us have seen the Sonoff Zigbee Hub and how easy it is to flash to Tasmota thanks to many awesome videos and my personal favorite by DigiblurDIY…