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The 23rd edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week This week’s blueprint is all about medication. It may happen that you forget to swallow it, what if you create an automation that sends you a message as a reminder every time? Mati24 has now made a handy blueprint for that, try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Swiper card Not enough space on your Lovelace dashboard? Then try the swiper card made by bramkragten , with which you can easily swipe through different cards in the same card frame. Lovelace dashboard Also this week we have a new Lovelace dashboard for the necessary portion of inspiration 😄 This time the dashboard of DoIGotSki...

The 22nd 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 Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week Are you one of those who always leave the doors open? Then this week we have a nice blueprint for you! BasTijs has made a blueprint that announces through text to speech in the house, that a door is open and only stops when the door is closed again. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Sun card On our Home Assistant reddit page we also encountered another nice project, namely that of AitorDB . Who made a Lovelace card that shows the position of the sun when it rises, is at its highest point and sets again. Collapsed card Is your Lovelace dashboard overflowing with cards and do you want to...

The 21st 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 Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week Imagine, you are listening to music and suddenly you get a call, then of course you first want to turn the music down a bit to understand the person, what if we automate that with a blueprint! This week’s blueprint is that of JackPoint , which will mute your media player when you receive a call and are at home. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Would you rather not have the media player muted but, for example, paused or take another action? More variants can be found on the Blueprint Exchange ! Car Telemetry A few editions earlier we had shown the dashboard of Make_Itt_Work and it contained t...

Home Assistant is the world’s largest home automation platform talking with over 1700 different devices and services . Home Assistant works with these via “integrations”. Each integration runs inside Home Assistant. They convert the data from the device into data that Home Assistant understands and forward commands from Home Assistant back to the device. For this to work a device or service needs to have an application programming interface (API). It is not possible for a device or service to provide lights, switches or other device types via the Home Assistant API without an integration. It can be faked, but it won’t work correctly. We explicitly did not add this feature because of interoperability. If Home Assistant were to offer this option, devices and services would no longer be required to create an API for control – they could just implement ours. This creates vendor lock-in, locks other home automation platforms out and hurts the open Internet of Things ecosystem. You shoul...

We’re pleased to announce that a new protocol, Matter, will soon be integrated into the SmartThings ecosystem, marking a critical step in advancing smart home solutions and creating new opportunities... from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/roundups/matter-joins-smartthings-ecosystem-paves-way-for-expanded-connected-home-possibilities/ via IFTTT

Notifications are a popular feature of the Companion apps , but the differences between Android and iOS made it painful to use them to their full potential. Starting with today’s release of iOS 2021.5, the vast majority of functionality is now shared across both platforms. As part of this, the notifications documentation has been extensively updated as well. Actionable notifications Building actionable notifications for iOS and watchOS no longer requires defining categories in advance of using them; instead, you can include the actions right in the notification. Support for macOS will be included in a future release . Categories were one of the hurdles around multi-server support, so removing them entirely solves that part! Included in the documentation is how to migrate from categories to dynamic actions . Both are still supported in the app at this time, but categories will be removed in the future. Below is an example script which sends an actionable notification and uses scri...

Damn! We are already at the 20th 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 Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week Recently Home Assistant has received support for the use of alarm keypads with deCONZ, which works with an alarm control panel entity and the deconz_alarm_event . Therefore this week’s blueprint is that of Robban , with which you can use a physical (Zigbee) keypad to switch your alarm on or off. Keep in mind: the support in deCONZ rest plugin is still in an alpha stage. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Lovelace Dashboard Also this week we have a new Lovelace dashboard for the necessary portion of inspiration 💡 This time it has become that of StreetInevitable5427 , ...

Here I am again, a month later. Are you used to these monthly release cycles yet? Hello, 2021.5! Nice to see you this May! I would say this release is a bit less feature rich compared to the previous release (which was epic, in my opinion!). But it is not a bad thing! Some really good stability improvements have been introduced this release! Not the hot new items you want to explore immediately, but these fundamental things will really help our systems now and in the future. Making this release an upgrade that would be a smooth sail for most of us (check the breaking changes). The most visual part changed this release can be found in the facelift that the integrations dashboard got. Oh, and the new color modes for lights is an amazing improvement as well! May… For me, that feels like the summer is slowly trying to make its appearance and I’m looking forward to it 🕶. Do you have a summer Home Automation project figured out yet? Oh, and don’t forget to tune into the release party ...