The Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is an official Zigbee and Thread adapter designed by Nabu Casa to give you a powerful, stable, and future-proof smart home network. It combines a high-performance Zigbee coordinator with a full Thread Border Router in one compact device — ideal for users who want the fastest, most reliable way to connect Zigbee devices today and Matter-over-Thread devices tomorrow.
Learn how to set up the XIAO Smart IR Mate and connect it to home assistant.
Want to know instantly when a door or window opens — without relying on cloud apps or Wi-Fi? The Sonoff Zigbee Door/Window Sensor connects directly to your Home Assistant Zigbee network for fast, local, and reliable automation. You can use it to turn lights on/off, save energy and keep track of who’s where.
Home Assistant will run on any hardware that meets the following minimum requirements: The easiest way to get up and running with Home Assistant is to run it on a dedicated device such as a Raspberry Pi or a small lower-power computer such as an NUC. NUC A NUC is a small, but powerful computer … Read more
Throughout this post, we explain how to write automations and scenes within Home Assistant to control sensors, lights, and other entities in a consistent and reliable way. We cover when to use automations versus scenes, how they work behind the scenes, and how to combine them to create a smarter, more responsive home.
In this post we look at how to take control of your dashboard in Home Assistant, as well as create and manage views and cards.
Door and window contact sensors are hugely versatile and can be used in a number of home automation scenarios. These sensors often consume very little power and can run off of a single battery for many months.
In this guide we will explain how a Shelly 1L can be used to provide two way switching
There are numerous benefits to using smart lighting over traditional lights. Most people find that the increased convenience is a huge benefit. With smart lighting, you can turn on and off lights, either via an app or automatically via automations. In addition, you often get more control, such as changing the lights’ colour, brightness, and temperature.
Once of the biggest challenges when starting out can be: do I need smart bulbs or smart light switches?
The answer to this really does depend on your situation as both approaches have different pros and cons. So let’s take a closer look!
The Shelly BLU Button1 is a bluetooth-operated action and scenes activation button that can be used to execute up to 4 pre-set actions or scenes with simple click combinations.
By default the Shelly BLU Button1 will beep when it executes an action or scene. Depending on the use case, this may not be desirable.
