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home automation

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Home Automation / Home Assistant setup with recommended hardware: The four-year update Overview of my current hardware for my smart home powered by Home Assistant. An update on my previous post of four years ago (!) when I had just started with home automation.

Automatically turn on tv when streaming to a Chromecast Quick Node-RED tutorial on automatically turning on a TV when streaming media.

Automatic dark mode for Home Assistant Quick tutorial on setting up an automatic dark mode for Home Assistant.

Local face recognition for Home Assistant using TensorFlow.js, Part 2: Learning to recognize faces Second post of my series on face recognition for presence detection in Home Assistant. In this post, I create a face recognition system.

Local presence detection using face recognition and TensorFlow.js for Home Assistant, Part 1: Detection Face recognition can be a cool addition to a smart home but has potential severe privacy issues. In this post, I start building on a completely local alternative to cloud-based solutions. This first part focusses on face detection.

Setting up Home Automation with Docker Compose: Home Assistant, Node-RED, and more Docker-compose is a convenient way to setup and configure your home automation system. In this post, I describe my setup and the configuration needed to run the containers.

My Home Assistant Smart Home setup with hardware list Continuously updated overview overview of the tech I use in my smart home.

Node-RED based custom full-room wake-up light Using Node-RED and Home Assistant and would you like to build a custom full room wake-up light? In this post I show my setup and explain how to build a wake-up light using Node-RED.

Setting color temperature and brightness of IKEA Tradfri lights simultaneously with Home Assistant A small trick to set the color temperature and brightness of IKEA Tradfri lights simultaneously using Home Assistant and/or Node-RED.

Talking to my house: Building a chat bot with Home Assistant, AppDaemon and Telegram In this blog post I discuss talking (or chatting) to your home using a Telegram bot. I cover making a new Telegram bot, connecting it to Home Assistant and then building functionality using AppDaemon.

Room wake-up light: Custom room-wide wake-up light using Home Assistant In this post I will show you how to build a custom wake-up light system. The automation will be configurable (on/off, time) and has a switch to disable it on weekends.