Tag: Home assistant
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Zero-Budget Homelab: How to Experiment Without Breaking the Bank
Most of my ideas don’t make money. That’s the problem. I needed infrastructure to build web apps, test IoT devices, and self-host services — but I couldn’t justify spending anything until I knew an idea had legs. Here’s how I built a full homelab for near-zero cost using a single Dell OptiPlex, Hyper-V, pfSense, Docker,…
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Home Assistant: Use Delay Instead of Timers for Simple Automations
The Problem: Overcomplicating a Simple Automation You want to turn something on, leave it running for a few hours, then turn it off. Easy, right? Many Home Assistant users reach for timers or complex time triggers to achieve this. But when all you need is “do A, wait, then do B”, there’s a simpler way:…
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[Solved] Adding SPM01-D2TW to home assistant. (Wifi version)
There seemed to many articles online for adding the ZigBee version, but not the WIFI one, so here it it! Prerequisites: Home assistant, with HACS (there are plenty of guides for this process that can be found online – just search google or youtube for HACS install for home assistant 😉) The key piece of…