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Smarter garbage reminders with Frigate and Home Assistant
Use separate local Frigate classifiers to see which garbage and recycling bins still need moving, then narrow and stop the existing Home Assistant reminders.
Local Holiday Countdowns in Home Assistant with Python and Codex
Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.
Local Package Detection with Frigate and Home Assistant
Replace cloud LLM Vision package checks with local Frigate state classification. Keep your Home Assistant helpers and alerts, and let Codex help train the model on your own…
Cloudflare Webhooks Are Free: Website Alerts in Home Assistant
Bring Cloudflare certificate, tunnel, and origin alerts into Home Assistant with authenticated webhooks, persistent Repairs, and verified recovery.
Add Custom Icons to Home Assistant iOS Notifications
Give Home Assistant iPhone alerts colored icons for packages, driveway cars, and vacuum help. Copy the nested YAML fields or use shared notification presets.
Monitor an AT&T BGW210/BGW320 Gateway in Home Assistant
Turn the read-only status pages on an AT&T BGW210 or BGW320 gateway into local telemetry for Home Assistant, Docker, and AI agents.
Get Early Tesla Tire Pressure Alerts in Home Assistant
Use the Tesla Fleet PSI sensors in Home Assistant to warn below 40 PSI, add a morning action item, and snooze the reminder for one or three days.
Get a Driveway Car Alert with Frigate + Home Assistant
Use a Frigate car zone and a 30-second loitering threshold to send a camera-backed Home Assistant alert to both phones and route optional speech through an LLM-backed announcement…
Codex Tray: Monitor OpenAI Codex Usage on Windows
Codex Tray puts weekly Codex usage, reset timing, reset credits, token totals, and reset alerts in the Windows notification area.
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