I had a need to display a list of items in Home Assistant. I have a REST sensor that calls an endpoint that returns a JSON list. I wanted to display that list in a card in Home Assistant. Take Note: The maximum length of a entity’s state is 255 Read more…
I am running an Axpert inverter with Solar Assistant on a Raspberry Pi. Solar Assistant collects data and makes an MQTT broker available. My Home Assistant (core, running in docker) has an MQTT broker defined that connects to eclipse-mosquitto running in another docker container. Mosquitto Configuration The problem is, you Read more…
This is a continuation from this article: https://techstuff.leighonline.net/2023/03/19/esphome-on-home-assistant-running-in-docker/ Bascially, I have an ESP32Cam that I want to add to Home Assistant. My Home Assistant runs in Docker (So no supervisor. It is also called Home Assistant Core). Steps In ESPHome, click on New Device. I will be using ESPHome Flasher Read more…
In this post we will look at how we can send notifications from Uptime Kuma to our Home Assistant. Home Assistant is behind Cloudflare Zero Trust. I am using Uptime Kuma to monitor a bunch of my websites. I want to send notifications to Home Assistant when something goes wrong. Read more…
This is an extention to my “Home Assistant on Docker” post which can be found here: https://techstuff.leighonline.net/2023/03/10/home-assistant-in-docker-home-assistant-core/ Adding ESPHome to Home Assistant that is running in docker is quite straight forward. Just add the following to the existing docker compose: The ESPHome dashboard can be found here: http://<docker_host_ip>:6052 We can add Read more…
This is an extension to my “Home Assistant on Docker” post which can be found here: https://techstuff.leighonline.net/2023/03/10/home-assistant-in-docker-home-assistant-core/ The issue Because I access Home Assistant over SSL, the IFrames must also be loaded over SSL. Keep in mind that because we will be using a self signed cert, we will get Read more…
Intro Alexxit Home Assistant add-on makes it possible to get Sonoff stats without flashing Tasmota. This is done by using a second Ewelink account. We will use the Sonoff PowR2 in this tutorial but it will be the same for any Sonoff Pow device. Cloud Only Mode If your Sonoff Read more…