Using Home Assistant to launch the Zoom meeting and send the meeting Url to predefined contacts via a Telegram bot.

It is a very useful and fast way to initiate a Zoom meeting with just a click of a button and share the meeting link automatically especially for the elderly…

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can write a code to launch the Zoom meeting automatically from Telegram Bot. It is very useful, at least for my case, to communicate with my elderly parents who don’t know how to operate Zoom, create a meeting, etc. In this…

I created this simple integration to stop any music playing on Google Home device if the Zoom meeting is on.

MQTT in Home Assistant

Enable and start the MQTT Mosquito Broker. Please refer to my tutorial here on how to configure it.

Go to File Editor and search for config/configuration.yaml, …

Install MQTT Mosquitto Broker

Let’s enable the Mosquitto MQTT broker in the Home Assistant. Go to Supervisor and search for “mqtt” and select Mosquitto broker.

A simple way to create the LED Zoom meeting busy light indicator. The LED light will turn red if your Zoom meeting session is running and it will turn green if the meeting is finished. …

In this tutorial, I will walk through how you can integrate Home Assistant with Google Home.

Before you can proceed any further, please ensure your Home Assistant can be externally accessible. Follow my tutorial below, how you can use DuckDNS to make access the Home Assistant remotely.

Google Console Configuration

Go to Actions…

In this tutorial, I am going to share how you can easily integrate the Google Calendar with Home Assistant.

Generate a Client ID and Client Secret on Google Developers Console

Create an account in Google and go to the Google Developer Console.

• Select Create a project and click Continue.

• Click Go to credentials.

This quick tutorial lets you walkthrough how to setup the DuckDNS in your Home Assistant.IO.

I am using Home Assistant.IO installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 sitting at my home and I would like to access my Home Assistant portal remotely when I am away from home. …