Barred Owl
From the personal collection
Author: Bob
Barred Owl at Tualitin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton, Oregon
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Moving Home Assistant from a virtual machine to dedicated hardware
I have been running home assistant on a generic Linux virtual machine using Oracle’s Virtualbox system for several years. It has worked pretty well for me, but I recently decided to purchase a mini pc and move home assistant to it. In part what prompted this was finding a low cost mini PC that looked …
Restoring Home Assistant from Google Drive backup
Normally you restore home assistant to a previous backup using the backups stored locally that are listed under Settings -> System -> Backups. Just click on the backup you want to restore and a window pops up. Simple. But if you want to restore to a version saved to Google drive you first have to …
Using Aqara Vibrarion Sensor as Garage Door sensor
I was looking for a tilt sensor to tell me if my garage door was open or closed. The sensor had to work with Home Assistant and the only one I could find that looked simple and cheap was the Aqara Vibration sensor that had a tilt/orientation feature. Unfortunately the feature was not one of …
Multiple Player Faro Game
This is an update to the Faro Game that I wrote. It allows for up to eight players to play the game. The basic gameplay is similar to the single-player mode with the following exceptions/additions. The instructions for the single-player game are here.
Around the World in … Part I: Portland, Toyko, Hong Kong, London
This is my daily journal recording the events, places and my observations during a business/pleasure trip around the world. I have visited most of the locations described here before, with the exception of Hong Kong. The business part of the trip consisted of training and sales calls with our Japanese distributor, then a week of …
Another Revolutionary War Ancestor
Daniel Wiggins Applegate1768–1826BIRTH 1768 • Albany County, New York, USADEATH 11 FEBRUARY 1826 • Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Based on the Applegate Genealogy Web Site, Daniel got married in Fayette Co., KY in 1790. He had a 50 acre farm in Franklin Co., KY until 1797. He then was in Carroll Co.,KY …
Update: Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists
I stumbled upon https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#what-this-is which gave me the information I needed to directly control my echo device, instead of having one echo command via voice another. Read my post https://robertjwallace.com/creating-home-assistant-interface-to-alexa-playlists/ for background. The difference between what I was doing in that post and what I am doing now is in the scripts.yaml file. The code …
Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists
Goal: Use Home Assistant to use Amazon Echo to play Amazon Music playlists Resources used: Home Assistant Community Store – Alexa Media Player