I've started making a game a lot of times, but I've finally finished one enough to release it. It's a simple path finding puzzle game that runs in a browser. The goal is to clear all numbered cells by moving over them to decrease the number in them and ending back in the middle when all cells are cleared.
My 5-year-old son often wakes ridiculously early and goes downstairs to watch TV. This means he gets way more screen time than we would like, especially on weekends. I solved this using Home Assistant, a smart plug and an M5Stack Core2 device with ESPHome.
I use an app to track my food intake and I wanted to get the data from that app into Home Assistant. The app is made by a publicly funded organization in the Netherlands called Voedingscentrum. I was hoping they would have an API I could use, so I emailed them.
I've been messing around with todo lists in Home Assistant (and Nextcloud through CalDAV) lately and had a thought yesterday. How easy would it be to use the voice assistant to add a task. Turns out it was a default command. However, the default command requires you to add the task description and the list to the command. I wondered how hard it would be to have the voice assistant ask for these. This also turned out to be pretty easy. All it required was a single, simple automation.
We've had a tablet showing a family week planner, weather information and some notifications hanging in our living room for a while now. Recently I've played around with the styling and thought it would be cool if the background image changed depending on the weather. In this article I'll explain how I made this.
My four-year-old son has been obsessed with time lately. He wants to know how long everything takes, up to the minute, and asks how many minutes it takes every few minutes. So much so that I decided to make a timer I can show on a tablet hanging on the wall in our living room we use as calendar, running Home Assistant. This is how I made it.
