https://blog.akjohn.dev/tags/home-assistant/Recent content in Home-Assistant on John KuruvilaHugoenSun, 08 Sep 2024 12:33:20 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/smart-light-hello/Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:33:20 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/smart-light-hello/I host a simple website titled ‘Say Hi’. If you press the switch displayed in that website, you will turn on a physical light-bulb in my bedroom. I thought it would be fun to explain how I set it up in this post. A little bit of backstory One fine evening, I had a crazy little idea. I get quite a lot of visitors to my blog. What if there was some way for these visitors to ‘Say Hi!https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/home-assistant-sleep-tracking/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:28:07 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/novelty-projects/home-assistant-sleep-tracking/I use the Sleep as Android App to track my sleep every day. It’s an amazing app with a great UI and integrates with a lot of stuff like Tasker and Home Assistant. Since I run a Home Assistant instance at home, I decided to go with the later. Integrating Sleep as Android with Home Assistant is done using MQTT. We setup an MQTT server in Home Assistant. If you’re running HassOS, it’s as simple as installing the MQTT add-on from the Add-On store.