Sometimes, when you are picking up a new piece of tech it’s hard to get started in it, since some of the things can be quite different to what you are used. The following article and the one that will follow are meant to provide as straightforward solutio... (more…)

At the end of this article you will know the overall anatomy of a skill, how to build the code that powers it, how to configure it in AWS… (more…)

This post is going to cover normalizing all media_player volume levels with Home Assistant and Node-RED. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend reading my previous blog post on sending Text-to-Speech notifications which dives a bit deeper on the optional a... (more…)

Anytime someone suggests an idea that’s already been captured, we send them to the roadmap to add a reaction (a 👍, ❤️ or 🎉) to the issue. We’re diligent about pushing people to the roadmap because… (more…)

A boilerplate for Node.js apps / Rest API / Authentication from scratch - express, mongodb (mongoose). - watscho/express-mongodb-rest-api-boilerplate... (more…)