Tagged: Home Assistant

21st December 2022

Adding National Grid’s DFS Dates to Home Assistant

The National Grid has devised an extensive toolkit to avoid electricity blackouts in the UK during this winter. As part of this, they’ve created a scheme called the Demand Flexibility Service, or DFS for...

Home Assistant / Home Automation / Ubiquiti

2nd November 2021

Controlling Ubiquiti U6-LR WiFi Access Point LED Colour in Home Assistant

Some of the newer access points from Ubiquiti feature an RGB status LED, normally used to indicate whether the access point is functioning correctly. Out of the box, Ubiquiti allow you to set a...

Home Automation

9th March 2021

Updating to a Smarter Light Switch

I’ve got to the stage where my Gen 1 LightWaveRF light switches just don’t cut it any more. Not having any feedback from the light switch itself has meant that creating automations around them...

Home Assistant / Home Automation

8th January 2021

Installing Home Assistant OS (HASSio) in ESXi

UPDATE: As of February 2021, Home Assistant now provides an official OVA file on their site, available from the alternative installation options page. This makes the installation process in ESXi trivial: Click the “Create...