Integrating an RF Smoke Detector into Home Assistant

Another possibility that we can give Home Assistant is to install smoke detectors, These are wireless, powered by a small battery and communicate any notification by radio frequency., There are many types and quite cheap, For just €5 you can make sure that nothing burns in your home or office! This is how cheap we protect ourselves, and in the end we will see how to alert with Telegram in case there is smoke.

Integrating a motion detector with Home Assistant or Hassio

If we want to place motion sensors and perform actions based on detecting movements, we will be able to use some cheap Chinese IR sensors that are powered by a couple of batteries, they are small and disguised… In this document we will see how to add them in Home Assistant and how to configure some actions, For example, If we're not at home, Well, send us a Telegram message notifying us of a movement, or at a certain time turn on some LEDs to illuminate.