Earlier today I posted a short video of my 3D printer card on Reddit, and you guys loved it so much that you voted it to the #1 spot in the /r/HomeAssistant subreddit. A lot of you were asking for the YAML or how I created this, so I’m going to share everything I did…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to create a simple automation that will turn off your 3D printer once a print job has completed. Not only is this super handy for energy/power consumption, but it’s also a safety feature – especially if you tend to print things overnight or when you are…
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to integrate your OpenSprinker smart sprinkler system into Home Assistant. By the end of this guide, you will be able to turn on individual stations, run your “Run Once” programs, check last run time, and much more – all from your Lovelace dashboard. For reference,…
One of the most recent smarthome projects I’ve worked on was making my sprinkler system “smart”. After doing some research, I stumbled across an open source project called OpenSprinkler. OpenSprinkler is web-based sprinkler controller for your lawn, garden, or plants. If you’d like to play around with a live demo, you can do that here:…
Are you looking for the quickest and easiest way to reboot your raspberry pi nightly? If so, look no further than this how-to guide. This simple 1-line command also works with Linux or Ubuntu virtual machines and servers, too, so feel free to schedule reboots daily, nightly, or even Sure, there a lot of different…
Chances are if you’re reading this guide, then you’re experiencing a pretty annoying bug with your raspberry pi os: the Chromium Can’t Update message. Don’t worry – This simple 1-line fix below will help. I’ve used this same command on 4 raspberry pi “dashboards” around the office, so I can assure you this works. If…
If you’re anything like me, once you’ve setup Organizr on your computer to manage all of your media server applications, like Sonarr, Radarr, Tautulli, Plex, etc, you’re soon going to want to add EVERYTHING you frequently access to it. However, you may notice that some applications can’t be added inside the Organizr v2 iframe. Pihole…
In this Raspberry Pi Webmin guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install Webmin on your raspberry Pi device. What is Webmin? Webmin is a web-based interface for managing raspberry pi devices. It allows you to manage just about every aspect of your raspberry pi. You can remotely restart, manage users, gain…
Raspberry Pi’s are powerful little devices. They are often used as “dashboard” devices for server monitoring, security cams, or to display webpages. Wondering how to disable sleep on a raspberry pi in 2021? Raspberry Pi’s have a built-in feature called Screen blanking which turns the display black after 30 minutes of inactivity. Obviously, this isn’t…
Want to automatically launch a full-screen Chrome browser on your Raspberry Pi after it reboots? If so, then this guide is for you. Keep in mind, there are a number of different ways to do this. We still want the ability to use the Raspberry PI OS desktop like normal so this is the route…