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Home Assistant Dynamic Entity Lists with Entity-Dependent Style
Home assistant is very powerful – possessing a great deal of flexibility both in terms of what can be monitored and how the monitored state is displayed. Much of the display flexibility comes through a combination of the Jinja templating engine and custom components. Here is one example of this flexibility in action: display a…
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Controlling 433 Mhz Blinds from Home Assistant (the easy way)
A while back I bought a superhet 433 Mhz transceiver/receiver pair (like this). The goal was to attach this simple device to a pi and control it using the great rpi-rf package. Unfortunately, it appears that my particular transceivers (one BY-305 controlling five blinds, one AC-123-06D controlling two blinds) emit codes that aren’t easily detected…
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HA MQTT Auto Discovery
As described on their official MQTT Auto Discovery page, Home Assistant allows one to create sensors on the fly. This is particularly important if you are, say, trying to add some non-trivial number of devices that speak MQTT. I saw a lot of posts about people struggling to get this working. I too had a…
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InfluxDB Queries on HomeAssistant Data