Base Installation To install MySQL (or more accurately MariaDB) on your DietPi \ Debian distribution all you need to do is run the following command: sudo apt install mysql-server This will down...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I will be adding my 3D printer to Home Assistant via the octoprint integration, this post will bu...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I am adding in two new sensors which will be used in some upcoming automation rules in Home Assis...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to cover the History component of Home Assistant, and show you how to ignore certain...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today we are going to make our Home Assistant deployment a bit smarter by adding in presence detection....

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to cover switching from the default SQLite database that Home Assistant uses over to...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. In this post we will be covering getting up and running with MQTT on Home Assistant - for the purposes ...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. In preparation for an upcoming blog post on the recorder and history component we are going to need som...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today’s objective is pretty straight forward, we are going to be adding some Philips Hue lights to our ...

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I am going to be covering secrets and security in Home Assistant along with a semi-decent workflo...