Take full control of Home Assistant without ever talking to Alexa or Google Home. In this video, I show you how to set up a USB keypad on a Proxmox server, detect key events, and build powerful automations using the…
Take full control of your Windows PC using HA Agent — send notifications, run apps, trigger media controls, speak messages, toggle lights, and even automate your computer when nobody is logged in. In this video, I walk through the full…
The July 2026 Home Assistant update is here — and it’s a game‑changer for your Smart Home! Your Home Automations are now beginner‑friendly, powerful, and actually make sense. I’ll show you what’s new, how the new Activity view works, and how the updated Automation editor makes…
In this week’s video, I’m fixing a problem I accidentally created… I told everyone to buy loads of Amazon Alexas on Prime Day — but I didn’t say how many. Some of you went wild and now have Alexas coming…
Home Assistant Magic ✨ Today we’re doing two brilliant Home Assistant tricks that feel like magic — even though (sadly!) it’s not real magic… just clever automation. In this video: • Turn any switch into a light in Home Assistant…
Unlock the power of Home Assistant automations with this beginner‑friendly deep dive into scripts, automations, triggers, conditions, delays, repeat blocks, and the new purpose‑specific triggers feature. In this video, I walk you through: • The REAL difference between scripts and…
Cheap smart‑home gear is great… until the cloud goes down and nothing works 😅 In this video, I show how to make Tuya devices run locally in Home Assistant using Tuya Local, so your lights, heaters, and sensors keep working even when…
Paul Hibbert said Homey was brilliant… so I had to find out for myself. This week I’m testing Homey (self‑hosted) to see if it’s really as easy, polished, and powerful as it looks — or whether Home Assistant still wipes…
Learn how to build a clean, full‑screen Home Assistant dashboard using the February 2026 release. In this step‑by‑step tutorial, I walk through creating a new dashboard, adding multiple tabs, setting custom backgrounds, installing Browser Mod, and configuring Photo Frame for…
Setting up Matter over Thread should be simple… but as you’ll see in this video, it can turn into a chaotic adventure of pairing loops, missing devices, random discoveries, and the ultimate culprit: IPv6. In this video, I walk through…
