Community Highlights: 2nd edition
Thank god, it’s Friday! For most of us, it means we can tinker with our Home Automation projects again 😃
The second edition of the Community Highlights is here to provide you a fresh source of inspiration this weekend. And, if that is not enough, upgrading to the latest release of Home Assistant Core 0.105 is definitely a recommendation for your list. It introduces tons of new shiny features for you to play with.
So, what changes did you make to your Home Assistant setup this week?
DIY Smart Candles
For starters, if you are looking for a cool DIY project, 3ATIVE
The code for this project is shared on GitHub: Smart-Candles
Thanks balloob
Vanlife: Home Assistant on the Road
Creative use of Home Assistant; we’ve seen quite a few vehicles in the past being fitted with Home Assistant (including boats). Zane Claes
In the past few months on the road, he built out a Home Assistant installation that’s geared to work in a car/vehicle. A full blog post
You can read Zane’s full blog post here:
https://www.technicallywizardry.com/iot-cars-vans-home-automation/
He also made his Home Assistant configuration publicly available on GitHub
Thanks, Robbie Trencheny
An auto-generating Lovelace UI theme
Dwain Scheeren shared a preview of his Lovelace theme on the Home Assistant Community Forum. The cool think about this theme, is that it automatically generates itself!
Unfortunately, the source code for this isn’t available yet, however, Dwain wrote on the forums that he is planning on releasing it soon. We are looking forward to that, Dwain!
You can follow the development of this theme on the dedicated topic for it on our Community Forum.
Visualizing everything in Grafana
Ivana Huckova
Today is a Hack Day 👩💻 at Grafana and I have decided to hack our home 🏠. I am going to be setting up @home_assistant
— Ivana Huckova (@ivanahuckova) February 7, 2020, exporting metrics to @PrometheusIO and visualising everything in @grafana . Everything is going to be running at @Raspberry_Pi . Follow my progress.❤️
Click on the tweet above to see the full thread of all tweets she did that day.
Oh, Ivana? Did you know we have Grafana available as an add-on? You can find it in the Home Assistant add-on store.
Got a tip for the next edition?
Have you seen (or made) something awesome, interesting, unique, amazing, inspirational, unusual or funny, using Home Assistant?
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- Post it to our subreddit
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See you next edition!