I am a newbie when it comes to home assitant so these are the few automations i have so far… looking for ideas for more. Fans/Fan Lights are ModernForm TowerFan - Dreo Outdoor Lights Pergola - FX Luminaire Outdoor Bulbs - Tuya Dimmers Indoor Switches/Sensors - Shelly Pool - iAquaLink Jandy C…

For me it’s not what you CAN do with HA, it’s more what CAN’T you do. HA is by far the most flexible home automation platform I’ve ever worked with and if there isn’t a component or solution pre-built for you it’s easy to build it using a myriad of methods. If you can think it up you can likely ma…

i couldn’t agree more… I have a Crestron Controller and a Control4 controller and I couldn’t integrate all my smaller ecosystems into it without paying for additional licenses/drivers. But sometimes the community has some very good ideas… just recently i discovered the integration with Tesla and i …

If you are looking for ideas you should search around the forums. The “hey what’s a good idea for automation” topic probably has a hundred different threads. I would recommend just reading the forums regularly, I get all kinds of great ideas just from reading what someone did (i.e., I recently buil…

And search github for peoples HA config files that they share… GitHub - SirGoodenough/Home-Assistant-Config: My HA Configuration... This is what I run for production in my house. .

You showed yours. Nobody is showing theirs though :wink:

And here I was thinking a picture is worth more than 1,000 words tho…lol I am thankful for that “what’s your most useful automation” link… I am scrolling thru it as I type this… I thought to take a different approach and post a couple of snippets to share with the community as well as the brands u…

[image] mcarty: Nobody is showing theirs though Mine changes too often. And how do I present 2 Dashboards, 24 Views and 19 subviews?

[image] stevemann: Mine changes too often. Exactly! My favorite automation is the flavor of the week, my best dashboards are what I’ve done today. It is almost a full time job geeking out HA, it would be another part time job to post all the cool stuff I’ve done here. And I’ve done some se…

I am undertaking my most daunting project yet. Documentation. I am working on a notebook for my wife should I die before her. She will need something to give to an electrician to restore the house to dumb status. (Few buyers care for “smart homes”).

[image] stevemann: I am working on a notebook for my wife I did that already, it’s basically how to return the house to “press this switch to turn on this light”, we both agree that it’s far too nerdy for her to use without me. I even have a failsafe command on my Siri that basically puts HA…