Home Assistant Featured Sleep better with Adaptive Lighting in Home Assistant Getting a good night's sleep is essential to our health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, many people struggle with sleep issues, such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep throughout the night. One of the reasons why some people may have trouble sleeping is due to exposure to bright lights at night.
Home Assistant An API for the home I live in a smart home. That should be known by now. But I also have a lot of information to play with.. Here's how!
Smarthome Featured My transition to Home Assistant (Yep. It's true.) I finally did it. I moved a while ago from completely running on HomeKit (Using HomeBridge) to Home Assistant. And there's a good reason for.. 💡Some of the links are affiliate links to products, I use in my Smart Home. By buying these products via the links, supports me with
shorts Guest Mode in HomeKit #shorts The following problem: You have visitors and go shopping for a moment. Your apartment or house has an automation using HomeKit that switches off all devices as soon as you leave your home. Your visit is therefore in the worst case in the dark. This need not be. I'll show
IoT Featured How to IoT your (mid-distance) relationship I did something I use IoT to let my girlfriend know I'm thinking of her. Now of course you're going to ask "Why don't you just tell her?!".. Because I can also do it through technology in a beautiful way. What is IoT? The Internet of Things (IoT) is a
Smarthome Featured How to save money with a Smarthome Smart homes are increasingly becoming the decisive factor when it comes to buying or building a new house, for example. And in fact it is also worthwhile for simple apartments. I got my utility bill in August and was able to find out that I was living free of charge
Homelab n8n - Automation for almost everything Nowadays you can automate a lot. Not just your own home. Also workflows that are executed when you write a new blog post, for example (like I do here, for example...). There are tons of tools out there that can help you automate some of the tasks of everyday life,
Homelab Your own VPN in the Homelab Your own VPN in the Homelab Everyone is talking about VPNs these days. They help us access our files in the office when we are working from home or encrypt data traffic when we are on public hotspots. But why do you always have to pay money for a VPN
Homelab Your own home lab quickly and easily Your own home lab quickly and easily As you already know, among other things, I host this website here at my home in my homelab. This homelab is essentially based on Docker (Swarm) and some manual work. Why set up your own home lab? Well yes.. There are many different
Smarthome Featured Why a 3D Printer can safe you money Almost a year ago, I was sitting in a friend's café with my best friend and we came up with the idea of developing an automatic feeder for our cats. Being tech savvy and able to do some soldering, all I needed for this project was a case, a few
Development Monitor your Homelab with UptimeKuma I have some services running in my homelab that like to fail. I use UptimeKuma to always know when which service is offline and when. Here's a live status page: https://status.wartner.io (Actually hosted on my homelab) What is UptimeKuma? It is a self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime
Smarthome Easily share Zigbee Devices between HomeAssistant & Homebridge In my smarthome I mostly use HomeKit for managing my devices such as blinds, lights or create routines and automations. But I also use HomeAssistant for my dashboard in my hallway on a wall-mounted tablet. I had a bunch of bridges from all kinds of manufacturers but sometimes I had
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