Today I am going to be covering the system monitor sensor for Home Assistant, specifically how to use it to monitor the underlying host computer (or system). This component exposes CPU, disk, memor...

Recently I bought my first 3D printer and could not be happier with it, or at least that’s what I thought… While watching some YouTube videos around 3D printing I stumbled upon an amazing project c...

Continuing with my series around home automation using Home Assistant I would like to cover the speedtest sensor component. As the name suggests this component makes use of speedtest.net to periodi...

Home Assistant (Hass) is hands down one of the best home automation frameworks (HUBS) I have used, and offers support for over 800 devices with that number growing almost on a daily basis. It not o...

I have been using Home Assistant for about a week and already there is a new version of the software available. From what I can make out the project is extremely active with a fortnightly release c...

In this post I will cover some simple steps on how to get Home Assistant as a service on windows. I will be making use of a nifty utility called nssm (the Non-Sucking Service Manager) which lives u...

I have been watching a lot of videos about home automation lately and found that Home Assistant (HASS) seems to be the most popular choice when it comes to consolidating all of your IoT enabled dev...

About 2 months ago I finally received one of my biggest packages from China to date, that was an Anet A8 3D printer from BangGood for around $239.99including shipping. I had a small issue with cust...

Below you will find a list of all the MQTT events published by the MQTT OctoPrint plugin. I made use of my MQTT-Dumper application I created in my previous post to do this, and have taken the time ...

MQTT Dumper is a simple utility (well, console application at the moment) that I put together in about an hour to help me spy on the communication of all my IoT devices at home. Currently the utili...