homeassistant

In this article, I'll share how I estimate solar panel output in Home Assistant using a simple Lux/UV sensor from my Bresser 7-in-1 weather station, after losing direct access to inverter data when I got a home battery system.

This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant's database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable.

This article explains how to fix your template sensors, automations and other functionality that is broken by the 2024.4 update of the Home Assistant platform, where forecasts are removed from weather entities.

Time for something completely different: Hardware stuff. In this article, I'll explain how to upgrade Synology DS423+ NAS's RAM memory, which super-cheap RAM memory I used, and a little bit about how I ended up with this device in the first place.

Time to write about Home Assistant for a change! I've been using the home automation platform for a couple of years now and while it's immensely powerful, you also run into all kinds of issues.

This article explains how to install Home Assistant on your Synology NAS device using Container Manager and Web Station. This probably applies to DSM 7.2+ on any somewhat modern Synology DiskStation device.

This article describes some of my experiences with Airthings air quality sensors, especially when used with Home Assistant.

This article explains how to fix and reconnect Sonoff Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant, after they have mystically disconnected themselves.

This article describes a solution to a problem that I have had with pairing different Smart Home devices with my app or some cloud service using wifi.

This article explains how you can move your Home Assistant's SQLite database files to another location by mapping them to another volume in Docker. Using Docker on Windows. Which might not be a smart move, but it's one I went with anyway.

This article documents the quick and dirty fixes and patches that I have found for Home Assistant.

One day I suddenly realized that my Home Assistant's ClimaCell integration had stopped working. That was weird - it had been running just fine for a while. I had signed up for a ClimaCell developer account at developer.tomorrow.

What a nice headline, right? 😅 One day, I thought I'd give Home Assistant a try! And obviously, I couldn't just make things easy and run it in a Linux virtual machine or my Raspberry Pi - instead, obviously, I decided to run it on Windows 10!