Home Assistant – JuanMTech https://www.juanmtech.com JuanMTech is dedicated to providing you with tech news, automation, tutorials, reviews, Android apps, smartphones, tablets android wear and more. Sun, 23 Dec 2018 06:10:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.2 Location tracking with OwnTracks HTTP Mode and Home Assistant https://www.juanmtech.com/owntracks-http-mode-and-home-assistant/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:33:36 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=7971 OwnTracks is a popular app for location tracking in Home Assistant. Allowing to create some cool automation depending on the location of a device. On this article, I’m going to show you how to set up OwnTracks using the HTTP Mode and configure it in Home Assistant with the OwnTracks integration webhook. I’m also going […]

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]]> How to set up the Picture Elements card in Home Assistant – Lovelace https://www.juanmtech.com/set-up-the-picture-elements-card-in-home-assistant/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:00:12 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=7956 The Picture Elements card in Home assistant is one of the most flexible cards available for the Lovelace UI. Allowing to add icons, text, and services on different parts of an image. Today, I’m going to show you how to set up an image of a floor plan and add entities to that image using […]

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]]> How to set up Lovelace on Home Assistant https://www.juanmtech.com/how-to-set-up-lovelace-on-home-assistant/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:50:18 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=7774 Lovelace is a new great addition to Home Assistant. Allowing to customize the look and usability of the user interface. On this article, I’m going to show you how to set up and configure Lovelace on Home Assistant. Also, I’m going to cover some of the different card styles that we can use to customize […]

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]]> How-To use the IDE add-on for Home Assistant https://www.juanmtech.com/how-to-use-the-ide-add-on-for-home-assistant/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:47:37 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=7762 Home Assistant has a few ways to access and edit the configuration files, but there is one particular way that makes it a lot easier and even convenient. Today, we are going to be looking at the IDE add-on for Home Assistant. This add-on is a packaged version of the Cloud9 IDE which is an […]

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]]> How to set up themes in Home Assistant https://www.juanmtech.com/themes-in-home-assistant/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 22:01:47 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=6869 The Home Assistant community is always sharing some great things for Home Assistant. Today I want to do my part and show you guys how to set up themes in Home Assistant. How to set them up to automatically switch between a light and a dark theme when it’s night time, and last but not […]

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]]> Home Assistant – Beginner’s guide Based on HassOS https://www.juanmtech.com/home-assistant-hassos-beginners-guide/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:30:44 +0000 https://www.juanmtech.com/?p=6801 The Developers of Home Assistant have released a new updated version for Hass.io which is now based on their own operating system called HassOS instead of using the ResinOS. Today, I’m going to show you how to install Hass.io in my Raspberry Pi 3. I’m going to show you how to set up the WiFi […]

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]]> How to set up remote access in Home Assistant – Hass.io https://www.juanmtech.com/hassio-duckdns-add-on-set-up/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:00:38 +0000 http://juanmtech.com/?p=6483 Last week we installed Hass.io in a Raspberry Pi 3, we set up two ways to access the Home Assistant configuration files, and we also password protected the Home Assistant web interface. Today, we are going to configure the DuckDNS add-on so we can access Home Assistant remotely and securely using an SSL connection.   […]

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]]> Home Assistant Part 1: Hass.io Installation https://www.juanmtech.com/home-assistant-hassio-installation/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:00:38 +0000 http://juanmtech.com/?p=6453 A few months back, I show you how to install Home Assistant using the Hassbian installation, which was a simple method to set it up in a Raspberry Pi. Today, I want to show you how to set up Home Assistant using the Hass.io installation, which is an easier method to set up Home Assistant. […]

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]]> How to install Home Assistant in a few simple steps https://www.juanmtech.com/install-home-assistant-simple-steps/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:49 +0000 http://juanmtech.com/?p=4241 A simple method to set up Home Assistant in a Raspberry Pi is by using Hassbian which is a Raspberry Pi image that has Home Assistant already built-in. The image can be installed and ran not just from a Micro SD card but also from a USB drive. So if you had previously enabled the […]

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]]> How to update Home Assistant in a few simple steps https://www.juanmtech.com/update-home-assistant/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:19:52 +0000 http://juanmtech.com/?p=3644 One of the great things about Home Assistant is that it gets updated frequently. The developers are actively releasing new updates every couple of weeks bringing support for new components and bug fixes. At the moment, there is no easy way to update Home Assistant via the web interface when it is installed using the […]

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