With one of the latest releases of the Alexa Media Player custom component for Home assistant, there is a way to Arm and Disarm the Alexa Guard feature. Alexa Guard is a feature of Alexa that offers 3 features via your Echo units:It sends a notification to the Alexa app if one of the first 2…
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Calling Alexa routines from Home Assistant
I have been trying to find a simple way to have Home Assistant start and stop the internet radio station Radio Paradise on all my Alexa speakers in the house. I have a couple of Echo dots and Echo Flex hooked up to various speakers around the house and I wanted to be able to…
Modernizing my 22 year old DSC Alarm Panel
Modernizing my 22 year old DSC Alarm Panel
The adventure of moving HASSIO from PI to VirtualBox
I basically followed Dr. Zzz and The Hook Up, but I upgraded to VirtualBox 6.014 with matching extras on CentOS 7. Finally found why my USB devices were missing in the VM settings. This had me stumped for the evening, but I knew it must be related to permissions. Then I found this. Thanks…
Garage door automation with Sonoff and Hassio
I finally have my garage door automation working with Home Assistant, a Sonoff SV, iOS notifications, actions and Google Assistant. It has been a challenge with changes in syntax between HA versions and getting the right format in yaml files. It is nice to finally get it figured out. I followed Dr. Z’s videos for…