Containerized Home Assistant setup

I recently migrated my Home Assistant setup from running Home Assistant Operating System on a Hardkernel C2 , to running in containers on my NAS The process was reasonably straight-forward, but finding up-to-date documentation and examples online are always a challenge when the platform moves fast My Home Assistant needs are covered by just three services; home-assistant , deconz and node-red . I use deconz because I have a ConBee II as my ZigBee gateway...

January 30, 2022

Pi Zero Plant Humidifier

I have some plants (philodendrons) that are a bit demanding about humidity, and I want to make sure they don’t dry out and have ample humidity to grow optimally. To solve this, I considered a number of solutions, including finding some ZigBee capable humidifier that I could control with Home Assistant. I didn’t find anything like that and even if such a product existed, it would probably be prohibitively expensive because it’s for a niche of niche....

January 21, 2022