frenck/awesome-home-assistant

A curated list of amazingly awesome Home Assistant resources.

awesome-home-assistant's Issues

Explain what Home Assistant is

Problem/Motivation

People will probably find the list via various sources, e.g., GitHub tags/search or links from other awesome lists. Believe it or not, but some of them might actually not know what Home Assistant is.

Proposed changes

• Create a small description of what Home Assistant is and does.
• Add this to the "About" section (or maybe a new chapter?)

Add META description to .com

Problem/Motivation

Search engines currently fail to create a nice excerpt.

Proposed changes

Add a META description to the .com website.

Frenck

Add Social Media Links for Mostlychris

Problem/Motivation

Add YouTube channel mostlychris
Add Twitter @mostlychris2

Proposed changes

Add YouTube channel mostlychris
Add Twitter handle @mostlychris2

Youtube Channel Link: https://www.mostlychris.com/c/mostlychris

Dead Link

This link has been dead for a few days.

Lovelace Card Gallery - Demo showing all official cards including configurations.

Smart home

Add HomeAutomation.CoDeSys3, a PLC driven automation approach for integration with Home-Assistant

New link requirements checklist

• This is not self-promotion; I have not created or am affiliated with the linked resource.
• The link is widely recommended regardless of personal opinion.
• Well known or discussed within the Community.
• Related to Home Assistant OR provide software, tools, and utilities that can be used with Home Assistant.
• Written in English.

The category of the link

DIY

The name of the link

HomeAutomation.CoDeSys3

The description of the link

Home Automation system build in CoDeSys 3 with MQTT communication to any third party Home Automation software

The link!

https://github.com/MichielVanwelsenaere/HomeAutomation.CoDeSys3

Additional information

An unique opensource project focusing on wired home automation using PLC devices. Extensive documentation containing Home-Assistant samples and a boilerplate project help users to easily program their device and easily integrate everything using MQTT.

The project has been around for several years now and has a steady but unknown number of users running the software 24/7.

Note that I'm the creator and maintainer of the project. Yet, as many opensource projects there is no monetary involvement.

Add smarthomescene.com to the Awesome list

New link requirements checklist

• This is not self-promotion; I have not created or am affiliated with the linked resource.
• The link is widely recommended regardless of personal opinion.
• Well known or discussed within the Community.
• Related to Home Assistant OR provide software, tools, and utilities that can be used with Home Assistant.
• Written in English.

The category of the link

Blog

The name of the link

SmartHomeScene.com

The description of the link

Beginner friendly guides, tutorials and reviews of home automation hardware.

The link!

https://smarthomescene.com/

Additional information

This is a blog focused on delivering beginner friendly guides and tutorials for Home Assistant users. Content is created with "a beginner mindset", so readers don't feel confused or lost. The author also disassembles, tests and reviews cheap home automation hardware and integrates it in Home Assistant. Its a good contribution to the Awesome list.

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Add Test

New link requirements checklist

• This is not self-promotion; I have not created or am affiliated with the linked resource.
• The link is widely recommended regardless of personal opinion.
• Well known or discussed within the Community.
• Related to Home Assistant OR provide software, tools, and utilities that can be used with Home Assistant.
• Written in English.

The category of the link

Add-on

The name of the link

test2

The description of the link

test2

The link!

https://example.com

Additional information

test2

Remove Custom LL cards as Official ones come out?

Do you think we should have links to the custom cards as the official ones come out? Namely the Alarm and Thermostat cards. There are going to be more and more custom cards as time goes on, and was just thinking that we'll want to prune when we can. Thoughts before I do a PR?

Problem with ESPHOME

Remove BRUH automation

Link removal reason

Linked resource is abandoned

The link to remove

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLecVrux63S6aYiErxdiy4w

Additional information

BRUH automation has removed all videos from YouTube, and doesn't appear to be doing anything in the space any longer.
Althought the website still appears to be online, almost all of its content has been removed.

Contributing question

Hey @frenck,

Just something I noticed and would love to get your opinion on. On the contributing page, you wrote:

Self-promotion is frowned upon, so please consider seriously whether your project meets the criteria before opening a pull request, otherwise, it may be closed without being reviewed.

I think I get the idea behind it. However, I'd like to add the Windows companion I'm developing to the list (we spoke about it before, HASS.Agent). I'm spending a lot of my spare time on developing, maintaining and providing support, and it's something I think can be of use to other Windows-dwelling Home Assistant users. The feedback so far has been really good, and it's been downloaded over 4k times.

Since I don't make any money from it, it's open source (MIT) and freely available, would it still be 'frowned upon' if I created a pr for its addition to your list? if so, why, and how are links usually added then?

Thanks for your time!

Problem with Rasbian/Debian/Armbian "bookworm": libssl.so.1.1:

List Architecture Question - Non-HassIO docker images

Problem/Motivation

List of addons only includes addons which can be added to HassIO directly through the addon store, however this leaves out some cool docker images which you can add to HA.

Proposed changes

Should this list continue to only include addons which are directly installable through the addon store?

I would want to say yes, as other docker images require a more difficult manual install (using Portainer for example), and not as simple as using the addon store. However, custom components are equally unsupported and also require following a specific procedure to use. Granted, using a custom component is still easier than a custom docker image.

Docker images which I think qualify for adding to the HA-Awesome list, if allowed, would be:

• DeepStack: Deepstack is a AI powered face & object detection engine, exposed over a REST API. Easily integrated directly into HA using robmarkcole's Custom Component HASS-DeepStack.

• Marthocs' deCONZ: This deCONZ image provides the same features and integration into HA as the official image, but also allows enabling VNC access into the image to view your ZigBee mesh network and diagnose any issues.

I think there are a few other docker images such as Ombi (Plex Request server) and SyncLounge (Watch Plex movies as a group with group pausing and a chatroom) which are great and I run on my own HA server, but are not strictly related to Home Assistant so probably shouldn't be included unless you feel otherwise.

Is it possible to add link to HA awesome lists in other languages?

Problem/Motivation

In the contribution guide you have a requirement saying the site targeted by the link should be English. The Francophone awesome HA list is in French and is not compliant with this rule. It could be useful to show your readers that awesome lists for HA exists in specific languages.

Proposed changes

Add a section hosting HA related awesome-lists only where the English-only requirement doesn't apply.

Monster Card has relocated

Problem/Motivation

Current link to Monster Card for lovelace is old.

Proposed changes

Change to new project https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-auto-entities

Add a test

New link requirements checklist

• This is not self-promotion; I have not created or are affialiated with the linked resource.

• The link widely recommended regardless of personal opinion.

• Well known or discussed within the Community.

• Related to Home Assistant OR provide software, tools, and utilities that can be used with Home Assistant.

• Written in English.

The category of the link

Other (Please leave a comment why)

The name of the link

This is a test

The description of the link

This link is a test

The link!

https://example.com

Additional information

Not really.

Add good images

Problem/Motivation

Describe why you are filing the issue.

Proposed changes

If you have a proposed change, workaround or fix, describe the rationale behind it.