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Smart Home Makers Live Stream - Q&A on Friday 30th at 9:35pm UK GMT

Make sure you join us on the 'Smart Home Makers' YouTube channel (Friday 30th at 9:35pm GMT) for a live Q&A and discussion with your boy SWAKES! Check out more from Smart Home Makers below ...

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Home Assistant - 'ESXi Server and Devices' Dashboard Breakdown

Hello hello hello and welcome back to my SWAKES blog! In todays breakdown post I'll be going through the setup and components used to monitor and manage my ESXi server as well as a few other devices I have at home. Before we delve into the nitty gritty, let me

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Welcome to the new SWAKES Home Assistant Blog!

Why hello there and welcome to the newly created SWAKES Home Assistant Blog! Some of you may know or have seen my previous blog site and wondering 'What's going on here?'. Well to clear up the confusion, I've decided to spin up a dedicated blog for anything and everything

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Featured in HA Community Highlights 10th Edition!

Check out my claim to fame here! Thanks again to everyone for your support and comments on the Facebook and Reddit groups!

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Home Assistant - custom:button-card, Headers and All That Styling Jazz

Hello there! Today I'll be going over the ever useful 'custom:button-card', creating headers and a few other styling bits and bobs I've used in Home Assistant to create the look and feel of most of my dashboards. A little heads up before we begin ... Most if not all of

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Home Assistant - OpenSky Integration (Who's flying above your house)

Good evening all! This post will be a short one but it's all about how to figure out what pesky planes/helicopters/Superman is flying above your house! Why you may ask? God knows really, it's a bit of a fad 'sensor/integration' to add into Home Assistant but why

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Home Assistant - 'System' Dashboard Breakdown

Hello and welcome again to another Home Assistant dashboard breakdown! Hopefully you'll enjoy this post and possibly be able to grab a few bits for your own HA setup! Lets delve in ... Home Assistant SystemThe first column on the System dashboard shows details and stats for Home Assistant itself. The

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Home Assistant - 'Media' Dashboard Breakdown

Greetings all! As you may have guessed from the title, today's post will going into detail around my 'Media' dashboard and how I've created and setup the different elements on this page. I recently posted this amongst the other dashboards I've made on Reddit (post here) and had a ton

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Home Assistant - Web Service 'Ping' Status Checker Thingy Sensor

Hello there! If you're familiar with Home Assistant you've most likely come across or even used the 'device tracker' element (more details here). This is done by 'pinging' a device over your wireless network or having certain applications provide the information to HA such as GPS location via a third-party