how to set up Frigate NVR in proxmox including coral.ai
visitors this year: 167 why If you see a need to save security camera video the Frigate NVR app will justify your having a ‘home server’. Frigate records, finds and plays the video whenever...
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how to set up secure local or remote https access (no Cloudflare tunnel) 🚀
visitors this year: 197 This guide describes how to make a service (like Frigate; proxmox or portainer or a camera or synology or qnap) accessible via HTTPS using a domain name. You’ll want access...
set up sonoff RF bridge to respond to 433MHz devices and send alerts via Home Assistant
visitors this year: 454 it’s not hard to make use of old or inexpensive 433MHz RF devices so that you can use them with modern smart home devices. For example, a 443MHz bell push...
measure heating oil use (or water tank level) with a A02YYUW ultrasonic sensor
visitors this year: 890 This tank level sensor produces surprising detail about my heating oil usage. It’s a bit like a smart meter for oil so I now know say, how many litres I...
Home Assistant … set up a Bluetooth proxy in the ESPHome dashboard
visitors this year: 1,537 what you need to set up a Bluetooth proxy A Bluetooth proxy requires almost any of the ESP32 development boards you can find at maker shops or Amazon. You need...
use a Switchbot water leak detector without a hub in Home Assistant … set up a Bluetooth proxy in ESPHome
visitors this year: 551 You can connect the Switchbot water leak detector with Home Assistant without the need for a Switchbot hub. The detector uses Bluetooth and wifi to send out its alarms which...
adjust the room lights when the TV goes on and off – Home Assistant
visitors this year: 622 Smart devices often find their best uses in Home Assistant ‘automations’. ‘Automations’ are better known as ‘routines’ and they make quite unrelated devices interact with each other as will be...
how virtualisation and containers are useful: tips to start using proxmox
visitors this year: 1,018 why a server? what can I use a home server for? a vpn, a router, an ad-blocker, storage for backups, a photo library, a music server, a printer server, a...
receive a notification of your Home Assistant IP address
visitors this year: 1,273 TLDR: one morning too often I’ve woken to find that my ‘smart’ things has gone stupid and they haven’t turned on because the Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant has gone...
basic arithmetic in Home Assistant to calculate how much heating oil I need and when I need to order heating oil
visitors this year: 1,952 My boiler burns heating oil from a tank and unlike the ‘gas’ that most homes burn it’s finite – so when it’s gone I’m cold. Ordering heating oil is tricky...
Use Tailscale to remotely access your network – the zero-conf alternative to install at home and on your laptop; phone and more.
visitors this year: 2,831 I’ve been using the Wireguard or nginx to access my home network* securely and I’ve explained in other posts (links below) how they’re used and set up. Tailscale however is...
use a TTGO TFT LCD to display temperature graphs and control a water heater
visitors this year: 6,297 You can graph temperature on this cute display and use buttons to turn on the heater as needed – the project works with Home Assistant and needs very little else...
use your sub-domain to access your home server (eg Home Assistant) using a CNAME – plus nginx proxy manager
visitors this year: 5,294 your need for a (nicer) sub-domain: At home you access an IP camera, a router, Home Assistant, a wi-fi access point, a NAS drive (eg Synology or QNAP) or perhaps...
calibrate and fit a Vl53L0X time of flight sensor to measure water or oil tank level (2025)
visitors this year: 3,373 Here is a tank level sensor that’s more useful than anything you can buy. This post focuses on my housing and the calibration for a basic sensor to measure oil...
measure heating oil usage with a Vl53L0X time of flight sensor and display on an energy dashboard (2025)
visitors this year: 5,061 how to make a heating oil tank level sensor that’s more useful than anything you can buy. This sensor… Background: homes like mine use diesel oil as a fuel to...
measure heating oil usage with a sensor and display on an energy dashboard – easy
visitors this year: 2,597 how to make a heating oil tank level sensor that’s more useful than anything you can buy. This sensor… Background: homes like mine use oil as a fuel to keep...
a DIY security camera system with object detection, recording and phone notifications – using Docker, Frigate and Home Assistant
visitors this year: 10,097 Let’s start with the suggestion that an easy route to a security camera setup is to buy a kit with cameras and a system box to record events on site...
use a smart switch to turn off a lithium battery charger
visitors this year: 1,944 I know that I ought not leave things powered on. Knowing that is easier than remembering that an e-bike or drone or laptop battery is still connected. Below I show...
this motion detecting night light tells Home Assistant when you pass by
visitors this year: 4,635 The very popular, but hardly-known Xiaomi nightlight, which lights up a dark space when you pass, now has a ‘smart’ version. A night light is nice on a dark stairway...
connect remotely to your home network using the WireGuard add-on in Home Assistant
visitors this year: 22,037 Why do this? At an early point on the journey to network heaven you may have a need to connect from some holiday location say, to a camera, your computer,...
how to stop a smart lamp and smart switch states getting out of sync
visitors this year: 751 two meanings of getting out of sync: Scenario one: You’ve two independently controlled table lamps which you’d prefer to turn on or off together. The lamps could be smart lamps...
access your Home Assistant remotely using DuckDNS, Letsencrypt and the nginx SSL proxy
visitors this year: 6,636 Home Assistant is more useful if you can access this ‘home automation hub’ away from home. You can then control Home Assistant remotely with a browser or an excellent mobile...
use nginx proxy manager with home assistant to access many network devices
visitors this year: 20,972 This page is for those who want to access Home Assistant from outside the home, and also want to access other devices, a router, a camera or a server on...
use the smart device app even if you use an automation platform
visitors this year: 336 Your smart bulbs, switches and door bell all come with a useful manufacturer’s app – over time you’ll accumulate many such apps. While Home Assistant might make them redundant, here...
how to know when the washing machine has finished
visitors this year: 977 If you need to know when a device, like a dryer or washing machine has finished working, get a ‘smart plug with energy monitoring‘. Amazon list many of them but...
automated fade up dimmer for analogue LED Strips – using a MOSFET and ESPhome
visitors this year: 8,945 This ceiling ‘coffer’ is lit by four 5m LED strips – each is cut to fit the space. When my kitchen lights turn on they fade up in a few...
see your sensor readings on a TTGO T-display ST7789V TFT LCD
visitors this year: 4,263 If you use Home Assistant you can show temperature, time and other sensor entities on this cute display. The inspiration for this mini-project came from a need to display my...
what is the temperature of your oven? how to cook reliably with an inaccurate oven
visitors this year: 1,310 Ovens may have digital controllers or analogue temperature controllers and cooks seem to have blind faith in their settings. In this household the cooks were burning food so I checked...
measure how much oil / electricity I use in a day – Home Assistant or espHome
visitors this year: 2,382 My other page tells how much heating oil the boiler uses. Here’s how I collect and display energy use measurements around the home. My measurements provide two things – a...
how to integrate 433MHz temperature & humidity sensors with Home Assistant
visitors this year: 6,572 A home automation platform, such as Home Assistant, allows you to monitor temperature on graphs using sensors placed around the home. Monitoring temperatures allowed me to turn on/off my heating...
can I integrate ‘HomeEasy’ 433MHz devices with Home Assistant?
visitors this year: 2,634 Yes. Below you’ll see how to control HomeEasy devices through Home Assistant and the RFlink receiver/transmitter. (This also controls other manufacturers’ wireless sockets). You’ll be able to create timers and...
use one switch to turn on two lights – in any combination
visitors this year: 624 The need: you use a table light for watching TV and a main (wall) light at other times and you want a coffee table button to switch between one or...
T4EU1C and Home Assistant
visitors this year: 911 a 3-gang wall switch for your home automation – using eWelink, T4EU1C and Home Assistant I got to a point where I had plenty of ‘smart’ lights and gadgets but...
set up rflink to respond to 433MHz devices and then integrate them with Home Assistant
visitors this year: 39,304 a project to integrate inexpensive 433MHz RF devices with modern smart devices. We’ve brought all the instructions to get going with RFlink on one page. see also: 433MHz smarter letterbox...
project: plot the temperature of your fridge-freezer, pet home or fermenting wine on a history graph in Home Assistant
visitors this year: 2,006 In a previous project I set up temperature sensors in my room and sent the data via Bluetooth to Home Assistant, the home automation platform. Home Assistant is software that...
how to toggle the state of a light or switch for Alexa in Home Assistant
visitors this year: 7,986 Toggling a light switch means that a press of the switch will turn the light off or on depending it what it was last doing. There is nothing clever about...
take your D-Link DCS-D150 out of the cloud and into Home Assistant
visitors this year: 1,684 I wouldn’t especially recommend the D-Link DCS-D150 motion sensor but it does have some features that had me buy it. Firstly it plugs into a wall socket above a worktop...
project: plug-in energy meter with graphs of energy use over time
visitors this year: 863 ‘Smart meters’ and metering devices usually measure the electricity used by the whole house*. However I prefer to pay attention to the electricity used by individual devices, such as a...
control a sonoff switch using eWelink and Home Assistant – without IFTTT or firmware flashing
visitors this year: 6,397 In this project I control a Sonoff light switch using Home Assistant. You can do the same with other Sonoffs. The switch shown here is the T4EU1C wall plate switch....
