Today I will be covering installing some must-have Add-ons when working with IoT devices at home, namely: ESPHome - control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files Zigbe...

In this post I will cover how I built my lounge clock using ESPHome, Home Assistant, MQTT and a whole lot of other technologies, I think that the end result looks pretty good for my first attempt: ...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. In this post I will be covering getting up and running with MQTT on Home Assistant, installation is pretty simple w...

Today I will be covering my SonarQube & Github Actions integration that I use for the majority of my builds at home. Basic Setup This section will run through setting up the required Docker co...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. Today I will cover setting up TTS on Home Assistant using the Google Cast integration. Basic Discovery Out of the ...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. Today I will be covering setting up DNS and HTTPS on your local Home Assistance instance making use of Duck DNS and...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. In this post I will cover configuring Home Assistant to use MariaDB rather than the default SQLite DB, you can refe...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. Download the VM Image First you will need to obtain the latest image from the Home Assistant website (see this page...

This post is part of a series covering running various containers on Unraid. This is a quick post on getting RabbitMQ up and running in a Docker container on Unraid, this post is based on the ...

Below is a quick cheat sheet for getting up and running with Portainer, generally I make use of Unraid for running my Docker containers however when it comes to running Z-Wave JS I needed to run it...