If you live in the urban area and need to pick up someone regularly, e.g. a family member off work or kid from school, a simple alarm on your smart phone might work out for you but not the best solution. With the help of home assistant, we can make it much smarter by utilizing real-time traffic information and home …
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While working on a fullstack project, Visual Studio Code has been the top pick for many developers. It's open source, feature-rich, and community-driven. However you could also find lots of complaints about slow, not responding, and cumbersome of VSCode all around. For example of my sample project Angular+dotnet, I …
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With the release of Home Assistant Core 2021.8, we no longer need grafana or influxdb to view real-time or historical energy usage in your home. I used to have a complex setup of a couple of separate docker containers only to achieve some simple energy monitoring tasks:
- Influxdb container to store timed data from home …
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