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Creating Home Assistant status dashboard
My favorite aspect of my Home Assistant Lovelace UI is a status overview dashboard that I built using the default Markdown card and a few simple YAML scripts. In this article, I will show you examples that you can easily customize for your own dashboard.
Channels DVR: The best solution to IPTV streaming
The world of streaming TV is complicated. If you are like me, you probably have a number of apps that serve anything from traditional TV channels, and video on demand to other local media. So many apps including native solutions from Google and Apple have tried to make the "TV super app", but none of them have come anywhere close this goal. That is why I was fairly skeptical when I heard positive community reviews about an independent app Channels: Whole Home DVR.
Using Synology router for ad blocking
Blocking ads at the DNS level became very popular recently with Pi-Hole and AdGuard emerging as the two…
Best software for your home dashboard
For many people, a wall-mounted tablet running a home dashboard is usually the centerpiece of their home automation…
Getting started with home automation
Step 1: Pick your platform You should make an inventory of all of your smart home devices and…
Getting started with Homebridge
Homebridge bills itself as “HomeKit support for the impatient” and it is pretty much exactly that. If you…