Homeassistant

From time to time my Home Assistant Instance comes along and wants some love. This time it reported that the disk is full. I checked via the “Terminal & SSH” Addon and found that Home Assistant itself is only about 5Gb of the assigned disk. Where the hell is the data? After a while i remembered that Home Assistant runs as a Container inside a VM and hence the underlying host could be the relevant issue. So i went into the console via the Terminal & SSH Addon and poked around a little. After a while i found the command of the homeassistant supervisor to automatically repair docker issues: ...

Recently i stumbled across the fact that my Sonoff TRVZB (Zigbee Thermostat available via Amazon* ) had the old firmware and i had no update offering in my Home Assistant Instances. Since i’m running ZHA i started investigating why. First of all, i believe it is interesting to see that ZHA is based on zigpy  which implements all the ZigBee features in a handy python library. So whenever something cannot be found or is unclear in the ZHA help pages, a look into the repo of zigpy might help. ...

Recently i wanted to expose a binary_sensor state from Homeassistant to the KNX bus of my home. For this i wrote a simple automation blueprint: