Snakeoil OS: The Blog

Every new Home Assistant release brings breaking changes. This trend is getting really tedious to be honest, and it really shows the immaturity of the developers of not thinking things through. Honestly I never liked the concept of agile development.… more »

My company held a lucky draw recently and I am lucky enough to win this, a Sony LS-F50G Google Assistant: [image:725] This is Sony’s take on Google’s Google Home, a mains powered mono speaker with built in Google Assistant. more »

IMPORTANT!!! This tutorial is outdated and will not work with Home Assistant 0.80 and above. If you want to migrate your existing setup to 0.80, please follow this quick guide. I’m still a noob when it comes to Home Assistant. My first attempt to… more »

[image:587] Using IFTTT and Voice Control to control lights isn’t as effective as initially anticipated - Google Home kept mis-interpreting what I said and go off some wild tangents. An easier way is to use the XiaoMi Gateway (Zigbee) and wireless… more »