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Updated using Hass.io with USB Boot on a Raspberry Pi

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast , , 0 Comment
kodi runs on a raspberry pi

Originally posted 2018-08-27 16:37:41. How to use Hass.io and boot off a USB stick. This is an update of my previous article here. In order to not create more confusion I decided to do a new blog post about this here. The whole installation of home assistant can be somewhat confusing for someone who is new and sometimes the documents on the Home Assistant site are confusing or as often happens, 100% clear when you have already worked out what you want to know. The ‘preferred’ installation method for home assistant promoted on https://www.home-assistant.io/ is to install Hass.io This installation
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Sonoff Switches with Tasmota and new MQTT Addon Home Assistant

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast , , , 0 Comment
sonoff s22 switch mqtt firmware

Originally posted 2018-11-14 12:41:45. I know I have done a few articles now about Sonoff switches and MQTT in Home Assistant. However a lot has changed – also my understanding has changed and so it’s time for another post about this. I’m also going to take a crack at making a video showing how to flash a sonoff switch with Tasmota. For reference, my previous posts can be found here: Home Assistant Updates May 2018 and Sonoff-Tasmota update How to use a Sonoff Switch with Home Assistant So lets look at the changes in MQTT introduced with the new MQTT
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Caddy Server and Home Assistant DNS Validation

David Williams - DEW IT Home Automation Central Coast , , 0 Comment

Originally posted 2019-09-03 13:57:09. NOTE CADDY 2.x has been released and this information is a GUIDE for installing that only. I will be doing an updated blog post for the new version soon.   One of the really great things about using the Caddy addon for home assistant has been that it provides a more secure system as it provides automatic SSL certificates and a reverse proxy and manages renewing the certificates before expiry. I had always been unhappy however that since LetsEncrypt dropped support for https certificate validation that it required port 80 to be opened and forwarded on
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