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The 14th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Blueprint of the week This week’s blueprint is all about climate and energy saving, SmartLiving.Rocks has written a handy blueprint that can switch your climate device based on whether a window is open or not. Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the my button! ESPHome Acquisition Last week we announced that ESPHome will continue under the umbrella of Nabu Casa from now on. If you want to hear more about it, be sure to listen to the latest Home Assistant Podcast in which Paulus explains more about the future of ESPHome. Uptime Card For those who would like to show their uptime robot status or other types of binary sensors in a very special way, there is now a new card made...

The 13th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Blueprint of the week It has probably happened to everyone, you forget to put the wheelie bin on the street and now you have to wait weeks again before it can be emptied again. There are already various custom integrations where you can keep track of when the pick-up days are. But maybe the Blueprint from westenberg , can also help you to get a notification every time so that you don’t forget it. It’s a kind of magic This week we came across another really cool project from redphx that was shared on our subreddit page. A lot of inspiration for those who are still looking for which actions they want to link to their Aqara Magic Cube. My Aqara Magic Cube setup is a bit different (pet-proof). Details in comment. from r/homeassistant Retro Re...

Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome is from now on under the Nabu Casa umbrella. ESPHome is the easiest way to program ESP8266 and ESP32 devices and integrate them into Home Assistant. It has become an important piece of the Home Assistant ecosystem, so much so that we want to ensure that the project can continue to flourish as a free and open source project. This week Nabu Casa came to an agreement to acquire the ESPHome project from Otto Winter , the founder of ESPHome. Otto started ESPHome three years ago to make programming ESP devices as easy as possible. With ESPHome, users write simple YAML files in which you describe what components are attached to what pins of the ESP device. ESPHome will then make this available in Home Assistant. No extra work necessary. Super simple. Example ESPHome configuration The following ESPHome YAML example will program your ESP device. When you plug it in, it will make the light on pin 16 available in Home Assistant. esphome: ...

The 12th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Blueprint of the week Do you have a number of domain names and would you like to track when an SSL certificate expires? Then you could try bkbilly’s blueprint that automatically sends you a notification when a sensor exceeds your set threshold value. Try it out! Also, take a look at the Blueprint Exchange for more inspiration! Birthday cake Happy birthday to adlawton ! 🥳 For his birthday, his wife baked this great Home Assistant cake and also gave him a Home Assistant Blue . My wife decided to bake me a cake to go along with my birthday present this year. Can't wait to fire this thing up! from r/homeassistant Hopefully, the cake tasted delicious and have fun with your Blue! ePaper display maxmacstn shared a really cool project on ...

The 11th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing. From now on we will also highlight a cool blueprint that we encountered on the Blueprint exchange . Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Blueprint of the week Do you have an IP camera in Home Assistant instance and do you no longer want to miss who is at the door? Then you could try the camera snapshot Blueprint from vorion . You can also indicate to which device you would like to receive a notification with a photo. Try it out! Solar weather station in birdhouse Spring is approaching, so it’s a good time to start building a birdhouse 🐦, so why not immediately turn it into a weather station? With the manual from Martin, you can make your own weather (birdhouse) station that works with ESPHome. Outdoor pathway light Do you have a garden and do you want to create lighting along ...

Hey everyone! It has been quite some time since we last provided an update on all that is new with the Android app. You may have already noticed that we had changed our release versioning to match that of Home Assistant Core. In fact, we will be attempting to align our releases more closely to Core releases. This way we can start supporting brand new features quickly, like the recently released My Home Assistant . Security Check As of Home Assistant Core 2021.1.5 some security vulnerabilities were fixed and it is very critical that all users update their instances to at least this version. The app will now do a check every 24 hours to ensure that the instance is at least on the release mentioned in the security alert. This check will be updated anytime a new security alert is issued. Location Disabled Check Certain app features that depend on the connected WiFi network (SSID), require the location permission to not only be granted to the app, but also have it enabled on the device...

Home Assistant Core 2021.3! And my oh My Home Assistant! I’m super excited for this release! 13 Brand new integrations! Z-Wave JS is moving forward with an almost insane development speed; thank you all for jumping into it as well! 🎉 For me, this release is about two things. My Home Assistant and some super slick new UI features for everything related to service calls. What it is; is explained down below, but both are just a leap forward in: making things easier. My oh my, enjoy this release! ../Frenck My Home Assistant New UI for service calls Fan speeds: 100% Suggested areas Z-Wave JS update MQTT trigger templating Oversettelser i Supervisor panelet Other noteworthy changes New Integrations New Platforms Integrations now available to set up from the UI If you need help… Breaking Changes Farewell to the following All changes My Home Assistant Today we present you: To be more helpful, we often want to link you to a specific page in your Home Assistant instance...