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The difference between a dashboard you glance at and one you have to read is conditional cards. A conditional card shows a control or a...
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Per-person notifications in Home Assistant mean addressing a human, not a phone. You build a script that takes a person entity, looks up that person’s...
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A critical alert on iPhone is a notification that bypasses the ring/silent switch, Do Not Disturb, and any Focus mode, plays at a volume you...
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Kiosk mode is what turns a cheap tablet into a proper wall panel: it locks the screen to a single Home Assistant dashboard, full-screen, with...
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A Home Assistant blueprint is a reusable automation template with typed inputs: you write the logic once, then stamp out individual automations from it by...
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An actionable notification in Home Assistant is a push with buttons: you attach an actions list to the payload, the phone shows tappable choices, and...
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Home Assistant notifications are the layer that turns a house full of sensors into a system that actually tells you something. In my setup they...
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Mushroom is the fastest way I know to turn a plain Home Assistant dashboard into something that looks designed and feels good under a thumb....
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After years of rebuilding dashboards, I keep coming back to the same short list of cards. On any given view in my setup you will...
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Node-RED vs Home Assistant automations comes down to readability under pressure: I run roughly 90% of my rules as native HA automations (trigger, condition, action)...
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