Home Assistant Weather Forecast I’ve been using Home Assistant for quite some time now but never really bothered with weather forecasts. I was always happy with just the “Meteorologisk institutt (Met.no)” card on my dashboard. But I have a need for daily forecasts, and I read the Home Assistant actually Read more
How to add text data to Home Assistant Logbook that comes from DIUN I recently added DIUN to my docker stack to keep track of images with updates. I wanted these notifications to go to Home Assistant so all my notifications can come from one place. DIUN will call a Read more
How to run Node RED in Docker when Home Assistant is also running in Docker? When you’re running Home Assistant the “normal” way, i.e. not in a container, you can install Node Red using Add Ons within Home Assistant. But, when you are running Home Assistant in Docker, the Add Read more
HomeAssistant DNS PTR flood It might happen that HomeAssistant floods your network with DNS lookups, more specifically, PTR records. A PTR record is used to find the hostname associated with an IP address. This is the opposite of what we see in the real world, because when we browse to Read more
HomeAssistant card list from JSON response I had a need to display a list of items in HomeAssistant. I have a REST sensor that calls an endpoint that returns a JSON list. I wanted to display that list in a card in HomeAssistant. Take Note: The maximum length of a Read more
Solar Assistant MQTT bridge to Home Assistant 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 Read more
ESP32Cam running ESPHome 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 Read more
Uptime Kuma Notifications to Home Assistant behind Cloudflare Zero Trust 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 Read more
ESPHome on Home Assistant running in Docker 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 Read more
OpenSSL on Windows and adding SSL Cert to Zigbee2MQTT 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 Read more
Sonoff PowR2 in Home Assistant – Alexxit 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 Read more