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Electronics and other fun stuff

Home Assistant IHC Viewer – not “just” a viewer anymore

February 16, 2021

The Home Assistant IHC viewer version 2.0 has had a lot of changes:

  • Most importantly, it can now be used to add/remove manual setup of entites. (no more manual editing of the ihc_manual_setup.yaml file)
  • It support multiple controllers.
  • The setup is now a config flow – no editing of comfiguration.yaml.
  • You can change boolean input/output on the controller directly from the UI.
  • Several other smaller bugfixes/improments

IMPORTANT NOTE: this new version does only work with the new IHC integration

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Home Assistant and IHC Dimmers

January 31, 2021

The older wired dimmer 350LR and unidimmer 350/400/1000, are causing problems for a lot of people, so this post will be about what you can do, and cannot do. The new 2 channel LED dimmer RS485 and the wireless dimmers, all work fine with Home Assistant so this is not about them. (more…)

Home Assistant IHC integration roadmap

January 11, 2021

I get many questions about if/when some specific feature is comming to the IHC integration for Home Assistant. Must of these are regarding configflow/unique id on entites, and related stuff. (And I will soon have a new version with configflow ready for testing)

So here is my list of stuff I am working on/concidering to do in a priority order:

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Home Assistant Blue

December 14, 2020

After the Home Assistant conference on the 13 dec. 2020, where the Home Assistant blue was announced, I think it is time to make a post about how I run Home Assistant, because I have been using the Odroid N2 for a longer time, and is very pleased about it.

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