Home Automation with Home Assistant

< Previous                                                                                              Next >  I decided to go ahead and configure the 'Cloud' so I could access my Home Assistant from anywhere.  It seems like an interesting way to control things, and as I mentioned...I am a techy guy. Getting the cloud set up was very easy.  I just followed this -  https://www.home-assistant.io/cloud/ It took less than 5 minutes.  Basically, I just set up an account from the Home Assistant Configuration > Home Assistant Cloud page.  I signed up for the free trial with full knowledge that I will have to pay $5 a month to use the service after the trial ends. Now I had to wait for the "Remote Control" to be ready... Wh...

< Previous                                                                                              Next >  So I just got my second lock. Working on getting it set up. What better way to do quality control on my posts than to follow my own directions? Starting with  https://mikehampton.blogspot.com/2020/11/kwikset-912.html And it looks like I did good.  This time I did not have to reboot. I went to Configuration > Devices after doing the first two steps... And saw my new lock! I changed the name and checked to see if it would lock/unlock, and it did. Now I could really benefit from the other work I did. Upon inspection, I found that the node_id of the lock was 4.   In my script (in  https://mikehampton.blogspot.co...

< Previous                                                                                             Next> We have a script that gets information from 'helpers'.  Now we need to give a person a way to provide that information to the 'helpers'.  This is how we will tie this all together.   We make a 'card' that we will put on our dashboard. Write a 'script' to set the door code. Create 'helpers' to make it easy to select the door to use, the code slot, and to enter the door code itself. Use the 'helpers' in the script. Create a 'card' that uses the helpers and the script.  This is like the lock card, but uses the helpers to get the door, code slot and door code. Create a 'card' that uses the helpers and the script. If you are not...