Give an Old Nest Thermostat a New Job as a Home Assistant Display
My retired Gen 2 Nest now cycles through family photos, shows Home Assistant alerts for two minutes, and follows our bedtime, away and guest states.
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Home Assistant MQTT Monitoring: Detect Broker Outages and Auto-Open Repairs
Monitor your MQTT broker from Home Assistant, auto-open a Repairs issue on outages, and trigger Joanna troubleshooting so you catch failures fast.
How to configure Garadget for LOCAL MQTT Only
I've had this TODO item on my list since September 27th 2019 when Garadget released firmware version 1.20. Reconfigure the two Garadget Garage Door openers to use LOCAL…