Home Assistant

Today I'm going to show you some of the ways I'm using Home Assistant and Grocy to automate our shopping list. Using Home Assistant with Grocy allows our smart home to tell us when we need to purchase something, as opposed to adding things to a shopping list when it's already too late.

When it comes to Home Automation, your home needs to be smart enough to know if the home is occupied or not. This falls under the term of "Presence Detection", and there are many options available when it comes to detecting presence.

I love walking around the house and having music playing. However, most of the time when I'm home alone, or if the internal doors are closed, I don't need the music to be in every room.

Being a developer, I love the flexibility and power Docker brings to Home Automation. Docker makes it easy to run multiple services which can play a big role in your smart home.

In Home Assistant and many other home automation controllers, your home status is either Home or Away. There's no in-between.

A Smart Home contains many moving parts, and monitoring them can be a hassle. When one of those moving parts stops, your Smart Home can quickly become a Dumb Home.

Almost a year ago, I wrote about my J.A.R.V.I.S inspired morning wake-up announcement with CastleOS. Since then, I've moved to Home Assistant and sadly, lost my morning announcements.