Guides – Page 3 – Home Assistant Guide

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How to Set up and Use Music Assistant for Home Assistant

Jun 30, 2022

Music Assistant is a new service that turns Home Assistant in to a jukebox. It merges your libraries and can play TTS messages without stopping the music.

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Integrate Home Assistant with Windows using HASS.Agent

Apr 20, 2022

HASS.Agent is open-source, free, and besides presenting sensors to Home Assistant, it also supports commands, notifications, and quick actions.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Integrating Unsupported Services with Home Assistant using Webhooks

Apr 13, 2022

Unsupported services can be easily integrated with Home Assistant using webhooks. This is how you set them up.

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How to customize a Home Assistant entity

Mar 24, 2022

While customizing an entity won't make any difference to how automations and scripts use it, it does help keep things tidy.

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How to build the easiest Zigbee chair occupancy sensor

Mar 23, 2022

This DIY Zigbee chair occupancy sensor for Home Assistant doesn't require soldering, knowledge of electronics, or 3D-printing.

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The densely packed e-paper display looks better than any LCD

Dec 15, 2021

The creator of this ESPHome project wanted to pack as much information on their 4.2″ e-paper screen from Waveshare as possible.

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System Bridge is yet another way to integrate Windows with Home Assistant

Dec 8, 2021

I introduce you to my favourite integration of Windows with Home Assistant: System Bridge. This app sends notifications, commands, and gathers data.

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How to add internal links to the Home Assistant sidebar

Dec 8, 2021

This guide will show you how to add custom links to internal pages to the Home Assistant dashboard's sidebar.

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How to control Home Assistant from the Windows system tray using HA Menu

Dec 2, 2021

To celebrate HA Menu becoming available on Windows, I will be showing you how to set it up and, once the setup is complete, how to use it.

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How to integrate the Wyze Robot Vacuum with Home Assistant

Nov 25, 2021

Using a custom component, you can control the Wyze Robot Vacuum with Home Assistant. This integration is much smarter than using a schedule.

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