https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ Real-world Home Assistant guides, hardware reviews, and automation blueprints. en https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/detection-event-log-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/detection-event-log-home-assistant/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The logbook card shows both Detected and Cleared for camera sensors. The fix: an input_text rolling log, an automation with trigger IDs, and a markdown card. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/dmi-weather-alerts-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/dmi-weather-alerts-home-assistant/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The built-in MeteoAlarm integration shows one alert at a time. cap_alerts creates one entity per DMI alert — storm, cloudburst, snow and heat, independently. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/fresh-intellivent-sky-ble-proxy-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/fresh-intellivent-sky-ble-proxy-home-assistant/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Setting up a XIAO ESP32-C3 as a Home Assistant Bluetooth proxy, adding Fresh Intellivent Sky fans over BLE, and a crash that looked like bad range but wasn't. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/google-find-my-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/google-find-my-home-assistant/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full FMDN setup for Home Assistant — fix the unavailable state, dark-theme the Leaflet map via shadow DOM injection, and know when FMDN isn't the right tool. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/etilbudsavis-shopping-list/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/etilbudsavis-shopping-list/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I connected eTilbudsavis to Home Assistant, sorted the list by store with price in the description, and added proximity push notifications for each store. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-morning-briefing-tts/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-morning-briefing-tts/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A daily 06:00 spoken briefing in Home Assistant: Google AI TTS, three family calendars, EV charge status, Waze traffic, power price and waste day. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-recorder-database-optimization/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-recorder-database-optimization/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT My HA SQLite database hit 963 MB in six days. The exact recorder config that cut daily growth by over 70% — full YAML and the reasoning. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/window-heating-automation/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/window-heating-automation/ Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The radiator turns off when the window opens and back on when it closes — built as a reusable Blueprint so the next room takes 30 seconds. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-nightly-health-check/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-nightly-health-check/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A nightly CI pipeline runs 22 tests against my live Home Assistant setup and opens a GitHub issue when something breaks — before I notice. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/skoda-elroq-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/skoda-elroq-home-assistant/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What the MyŠkoda integration actually gives you in HA, what's missing, and a useful EV dashboard with battery progress and pre-conditioning. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/mailboxguard-lora-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/mailboxguard-lora-home-assistant/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A PricelessToolkit MailBoxGuard wired to an AliExpress LoRa gateway: instant push when mail arrives, no battery change in over a year. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sonos-google-nest-home-assistant/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sonos-google-nest-home-assistant/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Unifying a Sonos speaker with four Google Nest Audio speakers via Home Assistant scripts — no third-party bridges, no subscription. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/wiz-circadian-lighting/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/wiz-circadian-lighting/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Circadian lighting with WiZ bulbs and the HA sun entity — no third-party integration, one automation maps solar elevation to colour temperature. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/outdoor-lights-sunset-schedule/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/outdoor-lights-sunset-schedule/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT No more adjusting the outdoor light timer twice a year — one HA automation turns Govee and LEDVANCE string lights on at sunset, off at midnight. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/wiz-movie-lights/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/wiz-movie-lights/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The living room lights dim when a movie starts, brighten on pause and restore when the TV turns off — no scene button, no voice command. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/tv-pause-phone-calls/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/tv-pause-phone-calls/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT One automation pauses the TV the moment either phone rings — regular calls resume automatically, Messenger video calls get a notification button. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sentinel-reolink-alpr-tv/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sentinel-reolink-alpr-tv/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I got a Reolink CX810 4K PoE camera to read license plates with AI and push a snapshot straight to the TV when someone pulls into the driveway. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-appliances-dashboard/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-appliances-dashboard/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Bosch dishwasher via Home Connect: a dashboard with programme selection and finish-time control, plus a button that finds the cheapest hour to run. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-calendar-view/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-calendar-view/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I combined four Google Calendars plus waste collection into a single colour-coded HA view that replaced the wall calendar we'd had for years. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-context-aware-home-screen/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-context-aware-home-screen/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT An HA home screen where every card earns its place: conditional cards, a priority alert ticker, and a Škoda section that follows the charger state. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/danish-electricity-prices-ev-charging/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/danish-electricity-prices-ev-charging/ Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Energi Data Service in Home Assistant: track hourly spot prices, find the cheapest charging window, and automate Škoda Elroq charging hands-free. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/roborock-interactive-map-ha/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/roborock-interactive-map-ha/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Roborock S5 Max in Home Assistant: interactive map card, room-segment cleaning, and the maintenance tracking that saves your brushes. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/tado-home-assistant-dashboard/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/tado-home-assistant-dashboard/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT 5 Tado zones in Home Assistant with mushroom climate cards, a CSS breathing animation for active heating, and presence setback that works. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sentinel-ai-camera-ha/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/sentinel-ai-camera-ha/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I got the Sentinel camera to send useful, actionable alerts instead of 40 motion pings a day — one automation, a mute toggle, and action buttons. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/mammotion-flora-ha-integration/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/mammotion-flora-ha-integration/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Mammotion Flora (Luba Mini 2) in Home Assistant: GPS boundary mowing, weather-aware scheduling, and the satellite count quirk nobody warns you about. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-glassmorphism-dashboard-design/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/ha-glassmorphism-dashboard-design/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT The six CSS constants I use on every card across three HA dashboards, plus patterns for progress bars, map cards and the ::before overlay. https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/proxmox-home-assistant-setup/ https://www.szimnau.dk/en/blog/proxmox-home-assistant-setup/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Moving Home Assistant from Raspberry Pi 4 to a Dell OptiPlex 7060 on Proxmox VE — VM sizing, USB passthrough, and why snapshots changed how I handle updates.