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Building a Home Assistant Custom Component Part 5: Debugging

4 minute read

Part 5 of building a custom component in Home Assistant. This is the final post in the tutorial series and it focuses on how to debug your custom component ...

Building a Home Assistant Custom Component Part 4: Options Flow

10 minute read

Part 4 of building a custom component in Home Assistant. In this post we’ll examine how to add an options flow so that your component can have additional op...

Building a Home Assistant Custom Component Part 3: Config Flow

7 minute read

Part 3 of building a custom component in Home Assistant. In this post we’ll examine how to write a config flow so that your component can be added and confi...

Building a Home Assistant Custom Component Part 2: Unit Testing and Continuous Integration

6 minute read

Part 2 of building a custom component in Home Assistant. In this post we’ll examine how to setup unit testing and continuous integration using GitHub action...

Building a Home Assistant Custom Component Part 1: Project Structure and Basics

7 minute read

Part 1 of building a custom component in Home Assistant. To get started we’ll go over the idea of the component we will be building, the project structure a...

Home Assistant Automation Inspiration

8 minute read

In this post I document some of my Home Assistant automations in order to inspire other’s using the software.

Node-RED for Automations in Home Assistant

11 minute read

This post explains why I’ve chosen Node-RED to power my automations in home-assistant. I explain the advantages it has over the built-in yaml automations and...

Roborock S4 Lovelace Dashboard

8 minute read

This post documents my Lovelace dashboard that I’ve created around my Roborock S4 vacuum in Home Assistant. I also go through how I’ve created each of the c...