Tag: Smart Home
Water Softener Salt, Tracked By Home Assistant
Track water softener salt in Home Assistant with one webhook, validation guards, helper state, template sensors, dashboard history, and follow-up automations. Read More
Home Assistant Caught My HVAC Failure
How Home Assistant recorder history, Frigate footage, and a small maintenance dashboard turned a failed blower into runtime-based filter reminders and condenser line cleanout alerts. Read More
Tesla Powerwall Stopped Charging: Home Assistant Watchdog
A Home Assistant watchdog for a Tesla Powerwall that stopped charging before Hurricane Milton: outage visibility, load shedding, charging alerts, and safe recovery. Read More
Home Assistant Leak Detection Automations
A practical Home Assistant leak-detection automation pattern using a water shutoff valve, maintenance guards, Activity Feed logging, Repairs tracking, and actionable phone notifications. Read More
Turn a Cheap Fire Tablet Into a Home Assistant Camera Kiosk
A cheap Fire tablet becomes much more useful when it has one focused Home Assistant job: a purpose-built camera kiosk with big camera tiles, Fully ... Read More