Hue Controlling Hue bulbs with Insteon Dimmers using Node Red and Home Assistant The house I recently moved into contains 40+ 6" recessed lights all containing incandescent or halogen bulbs ranging from 120 to 150 watts each. Basically they had flood lights installed
Node Red Installing Node Red in Docker for Home Assistant I've been trying to figure out a good reliable way to have semi complex automations setup for Home Assistant that I can easily edit and debug. Node Red ended up
Home Assistant Insteon-MQTT + Home Assistant Recently I moved into a new house. My previous house was mostly Insteon devices and I used Indigo running on a Mac Mini as my home automation software. Before moving
DNS DNSimple + Lets Encrypt + NGINX in Docker for Home Assistant If you start looking around the internet there are tons of different articles about getting this setup. They all vary in complexity and at times get a bit confusing. I’
Docker Smart Home Docker Setup Previously I wrote about setting up Home Assistant running in Docker along with Portainer to provide a GUI for management. Since then I’ve spent a fair amount of time
Home Assistant Intel NUC + Home Assistant Supervised I’ve been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for around 7 months or so, and have been very happy with it. That being said there were things
Sonoff Adding Sonoff Basic R2 flashed with Tasmota to Home Assistant I used a couple Sonoff Basics to automate my Christmas lights this year. I setup a few automations based on how we wanted them to turn on and off. We
Sonoff Sonoff Basic R2 + Tasmota (no solder) This is a walkthrough of flashing a Sonoff Basic R2 device with the Tasmota firmware so that it can connect to an MQTT broker. I decided to write this because
