Home Automation

Home Automation My personal choice is the smart home hub which protects your data, does not rely on the cloud, and enables you to connect several smart home devices and ecosystems. Home Assistant is the way to go here. Most things will be made with Home Assistant because I care about privacy and local data instead of using some cloud service. Sometimes cloud services are necessary and will be used as well when the benefit is good enough.

A collection of 16 posts

Home Assistant

Migrate Zigbee Dongle with Zigbee2MQTT

I got a Zigbee Dongle with Ethernet, and here is my surprisingly effortless migration experience.

Apr 14, 2025 · Andrej Friesen

PokyPow

How to Remove the Login Password in Windows 11, Power On with Home Assistant and keep your Steam Games up to Date

How to make your PC more like a console: Remove the Windows Password prompt. Automatically update your favorite games. Start your PC with Home Assistant and the PokyPow. Plus a small PokyPow Demo with my Setup.

Jan 8, 2025 · Andrej Friesen

Home Assistant

Smart Doorbell for Cats with Home Assitant

Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara

Dec 18, 2024 · Andrej Friesen

PokyPow

PokyPow Updates and Tasmota

We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.

Dec 17, 2024 · Andrej Friesen

Home Assistant

An Emergency Stop Button with ZigBee and Home Assistant

How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant

Nov 25, 2024 · Andrej Friesen

PokyPow

pc-switch renamed to PokyPow and other small updates

Nov 13, 2024 · Andrej Friesen

Home Automation

Free your robot vacuum from the cloud

How to use the robot vacuum without a cloud and integrate it with Home Assistant. With that, some pros and cons of a used older robot vacuum.

Dec 12, 2022 · Andrej Friesen

Home Automation

"Smart" Blumat Water Container with Home Assistant

Automatically water plants with physics and a simple water container thanks to the Blumat system. Additionally, detect if the water container is empty with Home Assistant and get notified.

Jul 25, 2022 · Andrej Friesen