My current Home-assistant setup is changing a lot at the moment. Trying to get my newest add-on to work; z-wave devices. I’ve added an Aeotec Z-stick Gen5 and a Fibaro single switch FGS-213. The switch is supposed to control my lights in the driveway and it works quite OK. Continue reading →

You have a Smart Home using Z-Wave as a wireless technology for all these Internet of Things (IoT) devices to communicate with each other. But maybe things are not working quite as well as you expect. Continue reading →

Newest release 0.58 of Home-assistant is out now. According to the rumors it contains the fix for the IKEA Tradfri gateway. Two weeks ago I suffered from loosing access to it and have not been able to connect to it again. At the moment it is the only thing I’m missing in my home automation setup.

As I’m using the distro of HA called hass.io, it will take a bit longer for the code to be ready for my update.