4 more HACS components for your Home Assistant powered Smart Home

[@maxwroc]

Thank you for mentioning my battery card. I'm glad that you find it useful. Thanks to your video the card got a lot of new stars on github which motivated me to speed up next release 😊 Now you will be able to show info from battery notes integration in more places than before. I plan to add some new features in the card specifically for battery notes integration in the nearest future. BTW I have linked your video in the latest release notes and on the community forum 😊

[@BeardedTinker]

That's so good to hear! Glad your card got more exposure as it's really awesome!!! Looking forward to trying all of the updates!

[@kksligh]

Battery notes should be core functionality - love it

[@BeardedTinker]

We can only hope, one day... :)

[@briankloc]

I’ve been watching this whole series of videos and usually install at least two per video. Thank you.

[@BeardedTinker]

Great to hear! Thank you!

[@sevagjb]

very nice series video to HACS, i like that your work is very appreciated

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you enjoy it! Thank you!!!

[@iainhay2823]

Love the battery notes one. thermal comfort I already use to let meywife know if her car is likely to need de-icing. The kitchen floors lights go red for bad traffic, blue for frost or pulse from one to the other for both when she walks into the kitchen in the morning. She than has an automation to scrape the ice....she shouts at me to get up and scrape her windscreen for her. Not so fond of that automation

[@BeardedTinker]

This is such a great idea! Need to to something similar! We usually have just verbal notifications, but they are getting fed up with it - this will be nice change.

[@iainhay2823]

@@BeardedTinker thanks! It works really nicely, the time to work automation is just based on the Waze sensor. It’s so much more noticeable as all the announcements get tuned out a bit!

[@cros13]

@@iainhay2823 Time to start saving for an EV with remote defrost? :)

[@iainhay2823]

@@cros13 fortunately they just added a new bus route which replaces the need to use a car anyway! Didn’t expect that I must say, the UK is not blessed with good public transport unless you are in London.

[@timtaler8439]

Thanks. I appreciate that you take the time to dig out some gems.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thanks for watching and comment!!

[@milnovako]

Extra video, jos jednom svaka cast !

[@BeardedTinker]

Hvala puno 😉

[@PetervanHofwegen]

Of the termal comfort component the absolute (instead of relative) humidity sensor can be very usefull. I use it for to monitor the drying of my laundry. Since with the exact same amount of moisture in the air the relative humidity will drop when the same air warms up and visa versa. Also comparing absolute humidity of outside with the absolute humidity where my laundry is drying can decide whether it is usefull to open or close the window. (and when closed turn on the dehumidifier instead) This has saved me soooooooo much money and the WAF is through the roof!

[@BeardedTinker]

Such a great idea! Need to do something similar. Thanks for sharing this!!!!

[@Claudiu.]

Great recommendations again. Thank you. The thermal comfort one reminds me that I wanted to try the mold detection integration :)

[@BeardedTinker]

Did few videos on that - but need to check again data used for sensors as I've done some changes to heating in those rooms and it may have impacted math.

[@janogrodnik8663]

Thermal Comfort is useful. Thanks for the tip.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you like it!

[@PierreLeroy76620]

I really should watch more often your content always nice things !

[@BeardedTinker]

I appreciate that! Thank you!!!

[@ApertureApex]

10/10 video as usual. Many thanks! 😁

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for comment and for watching it!!!

[@justatiger6268]

6:20 This part is not very clear and doesn't work for me. What do I need to do in order for this card to work/appear with a populated list of my batteries? Great video though as these are truly useful! Just need to get them to work now.

[@BeardedTinker]

It depends- As I've shown in video, I've added all of them by hand. But you can use code from documentation to auto-populate it - check documentation here: github.com/maxwroc/battery-state-card?tab=readme-ov-file#default-card-config

[@michaelthompson657]

Loving these hacs videos!

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you like them! Thank you!!!

[@michaelthompson657]

@@BeardedTinker no problem, anytime! Keep it up 👍🏻

[@louisviciedo]

Great stuff, love these gems!

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you enjoyed! Thank you!

[@adifoto6362]

O waw so many goodies, thanks for the video. Now i have something to do on the holiday 😀.

[@BeardedTinker]

Happy holidays and thanks for comment Adi!!!!

[@adifoto6362]

Happy holidays to you to @@BeardedTinker

[@erikwebr1342]

Good tips! Thanks.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad it was interesting!

[@grzehooo88]

Great gems - best and most useful vid untill now :D

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad to hear - thank you!

[@EsotericArctos]

I think a simple sensor, like a Tuya or Aqara temp and humidty sensor work well outside. I have a tuya zigbee sensor outside in a housing, it has been out there for about 3 years, and it works flawlessly. I just have it in a location that is not in direct sunlight so it doesn't report wrong temperatures, but all sensors will have that issue.

[@BeardedTinker]

They do - people tend to overcomplicate things and try to find something for a specific use case (outdoor sensor) while actually, most will work if protected and housed properly. And that reminds me - still have unpacked SwitchBot BLE temp/humidity sensor, that actually is advertised as outdoor one. Need to test it.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks B.T. Merry Christmas to you and your family. 👍🏻❄🎅🏻🎄😊

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you too Ron and all the best and Merry Christmas to you and your family also!!!

[@ReMiKu_cgn]

Dober dan, thank you again for an informative and well structured video. For christmas is about it come, may I add a wish to my wishlist. I would love to see a "How to build a (or your) dashboard" including the code to rebuild it by the viewer. Currently I snip out some code of your videos, but with your experience, i would love to see how you setup a complete new dashboard for beginner and experts (you see, maybe this will be a series of videos) ;) Just a little wish for 2024. If not possible or too much work: No problem. Hvala vam na vašem trudu Reimar

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you!!! :) Well, that will be a tough one, but I'll tackle it next year. My own dashboards in main setup are unfortunately, not as good as I wish they would be. Never have enough time to play with them.

[@starecmirec]

Very useful ideas to improve my HA and spend less time with my family in favour of my smart home 😉

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad to hear that and I know your pain!!!

[@carlosgallego1076]

Thanks for the video.

[@BeardedTinker]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching and comment!!!

[@andreasaichele]

Thanks for the great video, one more question: Why do your plants have batteries? Which sensors do you use?

[@BeardedTinker]

Ah, I'm currently using mostly HiGrow boards with custom ESPHome firmware. Trying also Zigbee plant sensor, but not happy with that one and also not happy with batterylife of ESPHome one. Probably will replace everything with BLE version.

[@dkickelbick]

Thank you!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you :)

[@yousaf.saleem]

For inverse you can use inverse helper

[@BeardedTinker]

What is inverse helper? I know about template switch inversing.

[@yousaf.saleem]

@@BeardedTinker it came with spook official homeassistant Ghost.

[@michaelthompson657]

Also on the last one, instead of using outdoor sensors could you just use the senses from your weather integration?

[@BeardedTinker]

If you pull them as sensors, sure, why not. But those don't update that often and also don't necessarily give exact data for your location. But for general use weather data is more than enough

[@michaelthompson657]

@@BeardedTinker yeah I’ve done this, so I’ll see how it goes

[@xipsilva]

Is there a card that has the battery percentage and the type of battery it uses

[@BeardedTinker]

Currently, not just one card, but with Battery notes and Battery State card, you can do that. Also from what I've heard authors have been in talk to make it easier to combine results from both components together.

[@holgerschurig4430]

I found no way to add batteries to the Battery Monitor that were exported via Z2M. The problem here is that they don't show up as devices, only as entities. And here I can only add devices.

[@BeardedTinker]

I too use ZB2MQTT. Not sure what devices are you using, but if it's via MQTT, you should see device with multiple entities. But you can always ask author, he is a great guy and very active with development.

[@bloopasonic]

Some (most?) indoor humidity sensors will not survive in condensing humidity conditions. I've ruined a few wirelesstags that way. They worked for a while, but never survived too many foggy nights.

[@BeardedTinker]

I have 5 that are in "extreme" conditions - from temperature and humidity side - 2 for fridge/freezer, and two directly on the outside in Stevenson screen + one without a case also outside. So far so good after few years. Even batteries last OK, not as long as those inside, but still at least a year.

[@yousaf.saleem]

Using thermal comfort already.

[@BeardedTinker]

Nice!