TV Status and Control with a Roku TV and Home Assistant
For today’s article, we’re tackling the problem of knowing whether a TV is on or off. We also want to be able to turn it on or off remotely.
Bits of Tech sprinkled on a typical life
For today’s article, we’re tackling the problem of knowing whether a TV is on or off. We also want to be able to turn it on or off remotely.
Here’s a quick template sensor that I found on the interwebs that’s really useful for automations. Basically the sensor translates Home Assistant’s sun component into dusk, dawn, night, or day. It also shows a...
Xiaomi sensors are great additions to anyone’s home automation project. They are extremely inexpensive ($5 – $10 per sensor) and they are battery operated so installation is simple. We have used their door/window sensors...
After a long haitus, we’ve blown the dust off this site and have lots of great info lined up already. Why the delay? Life happened, but we kept tinkering the whole time. Why start...