Nov 9, 2017 | Blog, Home Assistant, JINJA, JSON
A few times over the past week I’ve helped some users in the Discord channel for Home Assistant with some jinja magic using structured data. Jinja itself can parse structured data using dot notation or you can use the bracket notation if you’re using...
Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Home Assistant, JINJA, JSON
Home Assistant is extremely extensible and thanks to this you can integrate a whole bunch of stuff without too much work. Carlo lives in Orlando and wanted a way to be alerted when there was a launch at Kennedy Space Center so that he could go outside with some...
Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Configuration, Home Assistant, JINJA
You’ve got a sweet automation but you need to grab some data from whatever triggered it. Luckily Home Assistant has the ability to use Jinja in automation via templates so you can get your information to another service. In my example, I’m using an...
Oct 30, 2017 | Blog, Configuration, Home Assistant, JSON
Carlo was posting in the Discord chat about wanting to make a sensor for Home Assistant that could use data from a service to determine if today was a day that a flag should be shown. He had found an online RESTful service that would spit back structured data in a...
