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link to How to integrate a standard Appliance into a Smart Home

How to integrate a standard Appliance into a Smart Home

Many of us don't have the budget to stretch to a high end appliance that integrates into our smart home, you can pay a premium of $500 extra on top of a standard unit cost, just to have it connected...

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link to Home Assistant Templating Guide

Home Assistant Templating Guide

Templating is an advanced topic for home assistant users which many struggle to leverage. It allows you to customise and transform entities in home assistant thanks to Jinja2 templating....

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link to 5 MUST Have Scripts in Home Assistant

5 MUST Have Scripts in Home Assistant

Scripts are a collection of actions that are very similar to those actions in automations. Why use Scripts? They wrap around a series of actions and simplify your home assistant automations...

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link to Squid Games with Home Assistant (Green Light, Red Light)

Squid Games with Home Assistant (Green Light, Red Light)

Today I was thinking about a cool project to do with my smart home running home assistant, and I was thinking to recreate a game from the popular Netflix show Squid Games, in particular the green...

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link to How to Create a Remote Control in Home Assistant

How to Create a Remote Control in Home Assistant

Sometimes you just can't find that remote control, why not have it in your home assistant app too? I'm using a HACS custom card called LG Web OS Remote Control that enables me to control my LG...

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link to Smart Home NAS Automations (Synology vs Qnap)

Smart Home NAS Automations (Synology vs Qnap)

Today I'm going to explore the main differences between Synology & Qnap if you are a home assistant user. We will be looking at ease of installation, sensors exposed and possible...

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About Me

Hey I'm Gio! I run a YouTube channel called Smart Home Makers and run a blog too.
I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for smart home tech.
I have been living in a smart home for about 5 years. At one point I had more than 20 Smart Apps on my phone, I since decided to control my smart home with Home Assistant and help people learn this powerful platform.
When I was getting started with Home Assistant I struggled to get everything working, but now I feel the need to pass on this knowledge and get more and more people using Home Assistant as their home automation platform.
I recently decided to create a video course series to help more people out in a more structured way!

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