In this post I will explore the concepts of Helpers in Home Assistant and the potential that they can unlock with your automations. It is worthwhile adopting a naming convention for your automa...

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 when...

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 box...

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 Le...

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 refer t...

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 off...