How not to break manual control of devices with automations
A common problem that comes up all the time is when people want a light or switch (or anything else Home Assistant can control) to turn off automatically, bu...
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Remote access via PiVPN
I’ve already talked about setting up remote access, and configuring SSL certificates for Home Assistant. What though if you’re not using cloud services, and ...
Why Home Assistant?
I said a while back that I use Home Assistant, but I didn’t really say why.
Remote access for Home Assistant (and other things)
A (quick) primer on how to access a your Home Assistant server, or other device, from outside your network, with a dynamic DNS service. You’ll use a dynamic ...
RFC1918
RFC 1918 defines a set of 3 IP ranges that are not routed across the Internet and can only be used on local networks. You will sometimes see these used on IS...