Home Assistant
A collection of 16 posts
PokyPow Prototype Debugging
· Andrej Friesen
Joining the Home Assistant Podcast to Talk About PokyPow
Talking about Home Assistant and the PokyPow on the Home Assistant Podcast
· Andrej Friesen
Home Assistant Community in Cologne
The Home Assistant Community Day in Cologne was awesome. We’re doing it again next year!
· Andrej Friesen
Home Assistant Meetups Around the World
Home Assistant Community Day is happening on the 24.05.2025. Join my local meetup in Cologne!
· Andrej Friesen
Migrate Zigbee Dongle with Zigbee2MQTT
I got a Zigbee Dongle with Ethernet, and here is my surprisingly effortless migration experience.
· Andrej Friesen
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.
· Andrej Friesen
Happy Holidays - Favorite Smart Home Gadget
My favorite smart home gadget is a robot vacuum and mop! My personal PokyPow use case. I am working on a cat litter box scale to automatically vacuum the area around the cat litter box. And: Happy holidays!
· Andrej Friesen
Smart Doorbell for Cats with Home Assitant
Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara
· Andrej Friesen
PokyPow Updates and Tasmota
We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.
· Andrej Friesen
An Emergency Stop Button with ZigBee and Home Assistant
How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant
· Andrej Friesen
pc-switch renamed to PokyPow and other small updates
· Andrej Friesen
pc-switch: first 3D render
First 3D render of the new pc-switch.
· Andrej Friesen
pc-switch: Updates and I need your help
pc-switch update: I know which ESP32-C3 module to use and ramble about which antenna to use. And another reminder to take the survey.
· Andrej Friesen
Home Assistant Ecosystem
An intro to Home Assistant. Plus an extended link list to the surrounding ecosystem.
· Andrej Friesen
Roto Window Cover with Home Assistant
Control your Roto Window Covers with Home Assistant via a Becker USB stick.
· Andrej Friesen
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.
· Andrej Friesen