{"id":13221,"date":"2021-03-17T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjt.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=13221"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:17:48","slug":"home-assistant-hints-and-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rjt.org.uk\/home\/home-assistant-hints-and-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Assistant Hints and Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are currently making our home smart using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/\">Home Assistant<\/a> and this page is just a handy place to share templates and other tips for setting up Home Assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Templates<\/h2>\n\n\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/combining-room-assistant-and-person-entities\">Combining Room Assistant and Person Entities<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/convert-fire-sources-to-real-names\">Convert Fire Sources to real names<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/custom-server-link-buttons-using-button-card\">Custom Server Link buttons using button-card<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/days-to-date-template\">Days to date Template<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/detect-motion-on-any-motion-sensor\">Detect Motion on any motion sensor<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/displaying-newsfeeds\">Displaying Newsfeeds<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/getting-nice-messages-from-anniversary\">Getting nice messages from &#8220;Anniversary&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/how-long-since-something-changed\">How Long since something changed<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/list-all-open-doors-and-windows\">List all open doors and windows<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/list-all-sensors-unavailable-etc\">List all sensors unavailable etc<\/a><\/li>\t\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li><a href=\"\/home\/archives\/home-assistant-tip\/lovelace-custom-button\">Lovelace &#8211; 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