Hi there. This is a really simple one from me, but useful all the same, particularly if you’re a gamer! I own an Elgato Stream Deck and I love it. I stream when playing computer games and it’s perfect for switching scenes, muting, changing music …
Read MoreHelping to put your Windows 10 machine to sleep!
So over the last month or so, something has been bothering me about my main work station. It wouldn’t go to sleep. I don’t know exactly when it first started happening, but it was definitely after a windows update. It was irritating me. I would …
Read MoreMissing Hacs? How to repair a Hacs installation after upgrading Home-Assistant
Recently I upgraded my Home-Assistant supervised (formerly Hassio) installation from 0.113.4 to 0.114.3 (I usually like to wait for a couple of releases so the bugs can be ironed out by others!). I did a quick back up using the G-drive snapshot add-on and waited …
Read MoreThe Elephant in the Room: Presence Detection in Home-Assistant
I thought I’d write up a post detailing how we tackle presence detection and how we can run some simple modular automations on the back of it. I see many people asking online in the forums and on facebook which is the best way to …
Read MoreFixing the Chocolatey Deserializing Error
This is just a quick post to help people having an issue with chocolatey. For those of you who don’t know what chocolatey is, you can read more about it here as well as watching a quick video i put together on how to install …
Read MoreIOTlink: Full control and monitoring of your Windows 10 machine using MQTT
I recently decided to try an add-on called IOTlink. I was looking for a way to remotely monitor and control my main workstation pc. IOTlink seemed to be just the answer. In layman’s terms, it appears to install an MQTT client in Windows which continually …
Read MoreSetting up a 4G/LTE modem with Pfsense as the main internet connection: Netgear LB2120
So after 18 months in our current home we decided to move out into nature and try and get away from it all for a while. Not only did this mean we could get further into the mountains, and start to enjoy the wilderness a …
Read MoreGhost in the Shell – Fixing your MQTT issues
With the recent push in Home-Assistant to become more point and click and less yaml coding, I thought I would take a look and try and clean up some of my yaml and move over to the integration method. For those of you who have …
Read MoreFixing the Duplicate Entities bug in WebOS – (Home Assistant 0.111.3)
Hey guys, so recently I updated my home-assistant installation to 0.111.3 and noticed that there were some breaking changes with the WebOS TV component. I was receiving this error: I double checked all the yaml (you can see the coding from my initial …
Read MoreHow to Automatically switch lights on and off with Plex using Webhooks
I recently saw a request in one of the forums online asking for help on how to trigger events when certain events happen in plex. I thought I would write a quick tutorial to show how this can be done in Node-red. With the help …
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