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#dashboard#energy

Teaching a Miele Washing Machine to Wait for Cheap Electricity

Our washing machine died, so I bought a Miele for its native Home Assistant integration, then found it has no delayed-start register like the dishwasher.

Jul 28, 2026 · 5 min read Read more →

#camera#security

A Detections-Only Event List for Home Assistant Cameras

The logbook card shows both Detected and Cleared for camera sensors. The fix: an input_text rolling log, an automation with trigger IDs, and a markdown card.

Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read Read more →

#weather#notifications

Four Independent DMI Weather Alerts in Home Assistant

The built-in MeteoAlarm integration shows one alert at a time. cap_alerts creates one entity per DMI alert: storm, cloudburst, snow and heat, independently.

Jul 18, 2026 · 4 min read Read more →

#security#dashboard

Google Find My in Home Assistant: Track Devices on a Dark Dashboard

Add Google Find My Device trackers to Home Assistant with googlefindmy-ha. Fix the unavailable state and dark-theme the Leaflet map on your dashboard.

Jun 14, 2026 · 9 min read Read more →

#ev#dashboard

Škoda Elroq and Home Assistant, Six Months Later

From MyŠkoda to VW Group Connect in Home Assistant: what the integration gives you, what is missing, and an EV dashboard with battery status and pre-heating.

Apr 13, 2026 · 10 min read Read more →

#energy#dashboard

Scheduling a Bosch Dishwasher in Home Assistant by Electricity Price

Bosch dishwasher via Home Connect: a dashboard with programme selection and finish-time control, plus a button that finds the cheapest hour to run.

Aug 22, 2025 · 3 min read Read more →

#calendar#dashboard

One Home Assistant Screen for Four People's Calendars

How I combined four Google Calendars plus waste collection into a single colour-coded HA view that replaced the wall calendar we'd had for years.

Jul 25, 2025 · 3 min read Read more →

#dashboard#automation

The Home Assistant Home Screen That Only Shows What Matters

An HA home screen where every card earns its place: conditional cards, a priority alert ticker, and a Škoda section that follows the charger state.

Jun 27, 2025 · 6 min read Read more →

#vacuum#dashboard

What's Actually Useful About the Roborock Map in Home Assistant

Roborock S5 Max in Home Assistant: set up the interactive map card from HACS, clean single rooms by segment and track brush and filter wear.

Apr 4, 2025 · 3 min read Read more →

#heating#dashboard

A Tado Heating Dashboard With card_mod That's Actually Worth Looking At

5 Tado zones in Home Assistant with mushroom climate cards, a CSS breathing animation for active heating, and presence setback that works.

Mar 7, 2025 · 3 min read Read more →

#dashboard

The Glassmorphism CSS Behind All My Home Assistant Dashboards

The six CSS constants I use on every card across three HA dashboards, plus patterns for progress bars, map cards and the ::before overlay.

Dec 13, 2024 · 4 min read Read more →