Category: Home Automation

We have all been there. You get comfortable in bed, turn off the lights, and drift off to sleep, only to wake up the next morning realizing you forgot to lock the back door, take your vitamins, or put the leftovers away. If you are running Home Assistant, you don’t need to rely on your…

Home automation doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes the most useful automations are the simplest ones—like getting notified when a temperature crosses a threshold. What This Automation Does This is a straightforward temperature monitoring automation for Home Assistant. It watches a temperature sensor (in this case, a test helper) and sends an alert whenever the…

Want your Google Home to announce something when you flip a switch? Here’s a simple automation that does exactly that. What This Automation Does This automation listens to your smart switch. Whenever you toggle it (turn it on or off), it triggers your Google Home speaker to say a message out loud. Simple as that!…