https://thehelpfulidiot.com • This is a web feed, also known as an Atom feed. Subscribe by copying the URL from the address bar into your newsreader. Visit About Feeds to learn more and get started. It's free. Visit website Recent posts Updated on $DATE dark both home assistant Idiots don't have time for cable management. Zola2024-02-11T00:00:00+00:00https://thehelpfulidiot.com/tag/home-assistant/atom.xml 2024-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 2024-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/fully-local-universal-remote-control-with-home-assistant/

I have had a Logitech Harmony remote solution for almost 10 years. In my opinion, it is a very nice product. It integrates nicely into Home Assistant, and…

2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…

2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…

2021-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 2021-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…

2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…

2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…

2021-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 2021-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 thehelpfulidiot https://thehelpfulidiot.com/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…