Home Automation & Home Assistant Blog

Install ESPHome on a Waveshare ESP32-S3-POE-ETH-8DI-8RO-C WiFi Relay Module

Flashing ESPHome onto a Waveshare ESP32-S3-POE-ETH-8DI-8RO-C 8-channel WiFi relay module and adding it to Home Assistant, as the backbone…

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August 30, 2026

The Hardware Behind My Smart Garden Irrigation System

A look at the hardware going into my automated garden irrigation build — the Waveshare relay controller, Pedrollo pump, flow/temperature…

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August 29, 2026

Building a Modern Room-Based Home Assistant Dashboard with Button Cards and Popups

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August 19, 2026

Reading an Accu-Chek Instant Glucose Meter into Home Assistant over Bluetooth

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August 19, 2026

Monitor QNAP Firmware Updates in Home Assistant with MQTT

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August 16, 2026

From Generic “Facebook” Referrer to Real Attribution: Building My Own UTM Click Tracker

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August 15, 2026

Collecting Daily Facebook Page Statistics via the Meta Graph API: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why

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August 15, 2026

Where My KNMI Weather Warning Card Actually Gets Its Data From

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August 14, 2026

Ditching Node-RED: Moving My Weather Translations Into Home Assistant with Pyscript

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August 14, 2026

Adding Claude and ChatGPT Status Badges to my Home Assistant Dashboard

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August 5, 2026

Getting QNAP Notifications into Home Assistant with a Syslog-to-MQTT Relay

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August 4, 2026

Detecting a Pond Filter Overflow Instantly with a Non-Contact Water Sensor and ESPHome

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July 31, 2026

QazQa Fan Remote, Part 2: From Full Control to Passive Monitoring

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July 28, 2026

Local Tesla Control via Bluetooth: Teslemetry’s New Feature Explained

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July 25, 2026

Bypassing the SmartThings API Paywall: Local Control for My Samsung Fridge and Washer

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July 23, 2026

Bringing My WordPress Traffic Stats into Home Assistant with a Custom REST Endpoint

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July 17, 2026

Reverse-Engineering the QazQa 433MHz Ceiling Fan Remote with ESPHome, ESP8266 and the CC1101

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July 10, 2026

Fixing a 30-Second Lag in My Home Assistant Light Counter

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July 7, 2026

Automated UniFi Cloud Gateway Max Backup to QNAP via Bash and Cron

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June 27, 2026

Modern home automation connection diagram

GoodWe GW5K-DT Modbus RS485 integration with Home Assistant via Waveshare RS485-to-ETH

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June 26, 2026

Industrial water meter with smart module

Tracking Water Usage with Home Assistant and a Shelly 1 Gen1

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June 20, 2026

From Claude Memory to MySQL: Giving My Home Assistant Setup a Persistent Logbook

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June 18, 2026

How I Fixed My Reolink PTZ Camera Mount with a Cheap Wooden Extension Arm

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June 18, 2026

How I Built a Frigate NVR Watchdog After It Silently Died for 7 Hours

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June 12, 2026

How I Set Up Weekly Web Server Backups with Snapshots to My QNAP NAS

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June 9, 2026

How I Built a Smart Rain Alert Card in Home Assistant Using Buienradar and Bubble Card

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June 5, 2026

Why I Don’t Use the Home Assistant Maintenance Dashboard for Battery Monitoring

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June 4, 2026

How I Monitor Reolink Camera Availability in Home Assistant

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June 3, 2026

Monitor QNAP Updates in Home Assistant

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May 30, 2026

Monitor WordPress Updates in Home Assistant

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May 28, 2026

How to Schedule QBoost Memory Optimization on Your QNAP NAS

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May 26, 2026

Running Frigate NVR with Google Coral USB on Proxmox — A Complete Config Deep-Dive

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May 21, 2026

How I Use Claude and Agentic AI to Write Blog Posts Directly from My Home Assistant Setup

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May 1, 2026

NED Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant

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October 20, 2025

Bye Bye Homeseer…..Welcome Home Assistant!

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October 30, 2024

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DSMR Smartmeter telegram energy & gas usage in Homeseer & MySQL with daily and hourly usage

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November 14, 2021

Google calendar events via Node-Red and Homeseer via MySQL on Realtime dashboard

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November 8, 2021

New Elstar watermeter, new measuring sensor needed for NFC monitoring

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November 1, 2021

Buienradar weather forecast script for Homeseer

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May 5, 2020

SmartThings API Samsung Washer/Wasmachine script integration in Homeseer

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April 24, 2020

Monitor road temperatures (country NL only)

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November 8, 2019

Shelly Wall Plug-S integration in Homeseer

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September 28, 2019

TTGO Lora 32 TTN node and HC-SR04 distance sensor

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May 16, 2019

Control a Windows Service from a vb.NET script

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May 15, 2019

Monitor your “The Things Network” Gateway

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December 5, 2018

ElectroDragon – Wifi IoT Relay Board firmware change to Espeasy

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November 4, 2018

Sagemcom-T210D P1 Smartmeter reading in Homeseer

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November 3, 2018

Denon HEOS multiroom speaker script integration in Homeseer

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September 2, 2018

The Things Network – 8 channel LoRa gateway on Raspberry Pi

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August 19, 2018

Watermeter reading with a Raspberry Pi and inductive proximity sensor

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August 19, 2018

GPS data from Traccar in Homeseer

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May 13, 2018

Make existing IKEA led lights ‘smart’ with new Tradfri-drivers

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March 3, 2018

Google Assistent soon available in Dutch language

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March 3, 2018

Fitbit Aria body weight scale

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March 2, 2018

Prepare HA system for move

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January 22, 2018

Measure traffic duration and distance between multiple addresses

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December 31, 2017

Nice Youtube review of the LITEdge smart plug (by skiwithpete)

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November 11, 2017

Get Fibaro FGD-212 dimmer working in Homeseer

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September 7, 2017

Buienradar (NL) precipitation/rain forecast PHP script

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August 20, 2017

From HSTouch to realtime responsive dashboard

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August 2, 2017

Uncode: my new WordPress theme

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July 21, 2017

Slimme speaker belde zelf politie bij huiselijk geweld

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July 10, 2017

BlueIris and Homeseer

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June 13, 2017

Garden sprinklers

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May 13, 2017

Sonoff GPIO input

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March 14, 2017

Amazon Echo Dot voice/speech integration

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March 4, 2017

Sonoff firmware tutorial to ESP easy

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February 2, 2017

Air quality CO2 monitor

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October 9, 2016

Mailbox sensor

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June 11, 2016

Fibaro Flood sensor

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June 4, 2016

Store Homeseer device parameters into MySQL

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March 13, 2016

Control Raspberry Pi relays with Homeseer

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February 22, 2016

New IP camera in back garden

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February 19, 2016

Retrieve current Spotify track data into Homeseer

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February 16, 2016

Control Spotify from Homeseer via Tasker

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February 13, 2016

Sensative Z-Wave Plus door/window sensor

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January 14, 2016

New GPS tracker TK103-2

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October 2, 2015

220V powered Fibaro motion sensor FGMS-001

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October 2, 2015

GPS Tracker TK104

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December 10, 2014

ClearOne XAP 800 Microphone Mixer

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November 29, 2014

Upgrade to Homeseer 3

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November 15, 2014

Home Automation system

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September 25, 2014