A Less Obnoxious Assistant

My last rendition of my Home Assistant Configuration (which you can read about here) was left in a rather obnoxious state. My wife isn't particularly good about checking her notifications regularly, so while I was at work, I would get a notification every 10 minutes for a while, until my wife finally realized she should …

Maintainable Secrets

In my last post, I got Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) working for my Home Assistant home automation server. It worked at the time, but that was for a very basic configuration of Home Assistant. As I started to set up more components that needed keys or passwords, things started to get hairy. Luckily, …

Automating The Automation

I just got Home Assistant running on my Raspberry Pi in my previous post. Unfortunately, trying to edit the configuration file on the device is a major pain. The good news is, with the magic of automation, we can make things more convenient. We can put our configuration in a git repository, and set up …

Home Assistant Setup On Raspberry Pi 3B+

First, download the installation image from here. Then, unzip the image. Connect the SD card you are going to put in your Raspberry Pi, and then write the image to the card. Make sure you get the write device for the of= part. dd will overwrite whatever is there, even if it is your system drive. I …