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Getting HADashboard up and running on Jessie for use with Home Assistant

HADashboard is a very cool dashboard for use with Home Assistant. I’ve tested the installation process on a Raspberry Pi1 version B (yes I know) and although it took nearly a whole day to get working, work it does and by golly, does it look good. More info on GitHub here https://github.com/home-assistant/hadashboard First step is to install docker on your Raspberry Pi if you have never done that before: curl -sSL get.docker.com | sh If you would like to use Docker as a non-root user, you should now consider adding your user to the "docker" group with something like: sudo usermod -aG docker pi Set Docker to auto-start: sudo systemctl enable docker More info here and credit to Alex Ellis http://blog.alexellis.io/getting-started-with-docker-on-raspberry-pi/

My Notepad++ tricks when editing YAML files in Home Assistant

To comment out a whole section in one go: Highlight the text you want to comment out and use CTRL + Q. If you do this at the start of a line, it will only comment that line. CTRL + Q is toggle mode (comment on/off). CTRL + K will allow you to add multiple comments one after the other.

Installing ha-bridge on your Raspberry Pi

EDIT: Updated 14th June 2017 to reflect version 4.5.5. Default port is now 80 to keep Google Home happy and service now supports MQTT! Advice on backups also added 7th Feb. Version 4x also supports adding a Home Assistant instance which is great! Want to control your Vera, Harmony hub or Home Assistant entities with your Amazon echo or Google Home? ha-bridge is the best way to achieve that and installation is actually quite easy and takes less than 5 minutes. Here are the steps.