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  • October 3, 2021

Controlling Home Assistant with an Old Remote

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Using a Flirc USB IR receiver to turn old infrared remotes into Home Assistant controllers via keyboard events.

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  • October 2, 2021

Playing a sound directly from Home Assistant Operating System

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Playing a door chime through a speaker plugged into the Home Assistant box itself, using the VLC add-on over telnet.

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  • October 2, 2021

How to Use Zigbee2Tasmota with Home Assistant

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Using a Tasmota Zigbee coordinator directly with Zigbee2Tasmota and MQTT in Home Assistant, instead of ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.

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  • September 29, 2021

The Birth of a Smart Home

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How a couple of smart plugs turned into a Proxmox server, VLANs, and a fully self-hosted smart home: the network behind this blog.

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  • September 29, 2021

A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative

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Compiling and flashing Tasmota onto the EACHEN eWeLink ZB-GW03, an ESP32-based Zigbee bridge with Ethernet, for a wired coordinator that works with ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.

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