Home Lab

📄️ Home Assistant + esphome integration

We are going to use ESP32 to extend the pool Raspberry Pi's home assistant poor Bluetooth range.

📄️ Home Assistant + Matter integration (Switchbot hub2)

This article is going to talk about how we can integrate the Matter protocol IOT devices with Home Assistant. We will use the SwitchBot hub2 as the Matter bridge to control the Matter devices from Home Assistant.

📄️ ha-mqtt

Install MQTT broker mosquitto as a Docker container

📄️ Home Assistant REST command

Config rest command

📄️ Home Assistant + SwitchBot API

In this article, we are going to talk about how we can integrate SwitchBot with Home Assistant. We will use the SwitchBot API to control the SwitchBot devices from Home Assistant.

📄️ Customizing Home server dashboard with Homer

Homer is a light weight and simple dashboard page run on lighthttpd server.

📄️ Sync Joplin notes with WebDAV

Joplin is an open-source note-taking app that allows you to take notes and organize them in a structured way. It supports markdown, which makes it easy to write and format notes.

📄️ Nextcloud (snap version) backup

Official documentation: Nextcloud Snap

📄️ Home server networking (OpenMediaVault env)

Home assistant is always a key component in our home server. In this article, we are going to talk about how we can configure the networking for our home server, especially when we use OpenMediaVault as our home server OS where we have our home assistant docker running.

📄️ openvideovault

official site//docs.openmediavault.org/en/latest/installation/on_debian.html

📄️ Restore Home Server from Duplicati

After getting a clean rapsbian OS installed on the Raspberry Pi, we need to update system first:

📄️ Setup Raspberry Pi Home Lab with docker

In this article, we will set up a Raspberry Pi home lab, which covers all the details from Hardware setup, OS installation and docker setup.

📄️ SwitchBot API 1.1

SwitchBot API 1.0 became not able to fetch the device status anymore from 2024/03/01. So, we need to use the SwitchBot API 1.1 to get the device status.

📄️ Build a self hosted speech to text server using Whisper

Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model introduced by OpenAi. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

📄️ ZHA device - Smart Button

In this article we are going to cover zigbee smart button integration with ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) in Home Assistant. The device we are using is

📄️ ZHA Zigbee coordinator setup

Home assistant has a built-in integration for Zigbee devices called ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation). This integration allows you to connect Zigbee devices to Home Assistant without the need for a separate hub. What we need is a Zigbee coordinator (dongle) that is compatible with ZHA.

📄️ casa-os

📄️ ha-esp32-presence