Focusing mostly on preventing energy wastage, I try to save some money by automating my smart devices for their optimal use.

Getting the data from there into Home Assistant, InfluxDB or similar is easy, as rtl_433 can output the decoded data directly to an Influx database, MQTT broker as well as other formats.

If you can think of a smart home product, a sensor or switch or light, it’s very likely that one or more frustrated nerds figured out how to get it to work using Home Assistant several years ago.

Google yesterday recapped recent Home app launches while teasing the ability to “see more data from sensors” that might already be rolling out.. Update 11/9: Google tells us today that the ...

Both are working on D1 Minis using ESPHome and I can wire them up to the Rachio pretty easily using Node-Red in Home Assistant. That all works. Pool is still months away so I'm not sure exactly ...