Integrating our Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner into Home Assistant

If we are lucky enough to have the best vacuum cleaner on the market, that is, a Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum and you want to continue integrating everything into Home Assistant to have your smart home controlled from a single point, This is your post. You will see that in 5 minutes you have it mounted and you can control the vacuum cleaner, as well as to know any detail from Hassio. And at the end we will know how to learn areas, like cooking, and send him to automatically inhale after lunchtime those crumbs that we have dropped, ¡ah! And in silence because it's nap time.

Controlling our 3D printer with OctoPrint, The Spaghetti Detective and Home Assistant

Well, I think this will be a wild post, So I'm apologizing to you from now on… Well what? We'll try to see how to install OctoPrint to control our 3D printers, we will continue with The Spaghetti Detective so that someone looks for us during the printing and if something inopportune happens stop the printing, or do what you have to do. And we ended up integrating this with Home Assistant, with the idea of creating automations and centralizing government.

Creating our Floorplan or Animated House Plan in Home Assistant

In this post we are going to try to explain how we can make a plan of our house and integrate it into Home Assistant, with the intention of integrating the devices that we already have in Hassio and giving life to the plan. It is something very attractive and above all visual, It is something they will appreciate at home, since with an image we can see the state of our home and we can interact from it with the devices that we add.

Taking LED strips to another dimension with WLED and LedFx, NodeMCU and Home Assistant

Well, This post is loaded, where we are going to see different products that also combine them make magic. We're going to connect a WS2812B LED strip to a NodeMCU and load WLED to get some really cool effects, we will also mount LedFx to move the LEDs with audio and we will end up presenting everything through Home Assistant for home automation control.