Stop Getting Blinded by Your Smart Lights at Night
Set a gentler brightness for any dimmable light that turns on at night, without maintaining a light list. A complete Home Assistant package and a short YAML walkthrough.
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Turn a Samsung TV Into a Home Assistant Dashboard with Haven
Our living room Samsung TV becomes a Home Assistant kiosk when the Roku screensaver starts. Here is how Haven, passive camera views, and shared household notifications fit together.
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.
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.
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…
Home Assistant Mobile Dashboard With Big Buttons
A dedicated Home Assistant Mobile view puts garages, locks, thermostats, status, and camera drill-throughs behind large two-column controls that work even when I do not have my glasses.
Tracking Air Quality in Home Assistant with Airly and Pirate Weather
Use Airly CAQI as a local signal and Pirate Weather US AQI as a safety backstop while keeping normal air out of Home Assistant speech briefings.