Until a few months ago, I was using this method to trigger a flow from the Home Assistant UI. Although it works fine, it’s not very elegant. Empty scripts cause linting warnings, and we don’t know...

How to activate a light with a motion sensor and override it with a switch? This is a recurring subject on the Forums, Reddit, and Discord. Here’s how I do it. The light switch in my kitchen is c...

So you’ve created an amazing flow, and now you want to share it with the world. How to minimize the chances of issues for those who are going to import this flow? It’s important to keep that in m...

I see a lot of people who use Node-RED as their automation engine looking for a way to trigger a flow from the Home Assistant UI. Here’s how I do it. First I created an empty script. script: g...

I see a lot of people having issues and/or doubts about the light switches when installing smart bulbs in their homes. This is how I do it in my house. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have s...

My special thanks to Phil Hawthorne for letting me use the title of his post here. In early 2018 I found Phil’s excellent blog post “Making Home Assistant’s Presence Detection not so Binary” and ...

The States UI is now deprecated and will be completely removed from Home Assistant in version 0.107.0. Therefore, this won’t work anymore after that. Sometimes you need to access the Home Ass...

With the release of Home Assistant version 0.70 it is now possible to install the Dasher add-on again when running Hass.io on Ubuntu Server. If, like me, you are frustrated by the inability t...

On May 9, 2020, this installation method was deprecated. For more info, refer to this post in the official Home Assistant blog.

The States UI is now deprecated and will be completely removed from Home Assistant in version 0.107.0. Therefore, this won’t work anymore after that. If you have sensors around the house, you...