If you have been using Home Assistant to track any kind of consumption like Water, Gas, Electricity ETC, You have probably set up a few devices in the energy dashboard only to come back in a few days and be told you somehow used 900 kWh last night on a heater. Wait WHAT??? after looking…
Last Thursday, I opened a support ticket labeled with the all-too-familiar subject line:“HELP!! User’s account has been hacked!!! URGENT!” My first thought was, “This is probably just another case of a browser pop-up saying something like, ‘You’ve been hacked!’ or ‘Your computer has 52 viruses! Call Microsoft Support at 555-5555.’” If you work in IT,…
Let me start this article with, I an 100% a new comer to Home Assistant as of 1 week ago. There is so much to learn that most people take for granted. So many posts on the internet just say they found the solution but never show how or their answer is so cryptic or…
UPDATE 1: I was told of an easier way to do this using the UI. Credit to Ildar_Gabdullin on the Home Assistant Forums for providing me this answer. click here for the easier answer Update 2: Another solution was mentioned that you can rename the entity. When you rename the entity it will update the…
Backgroud Story (bla bla bla) So I have taken a head long dive into FreeNAS, and I am loving it! I was able to use some old hardware to do all the things I needed for my home network. Services like Frigate as my NVR (see you later licenses), HomeAssistant for Home Automation, Emby for…
While on a Google Apps Script Discord Server a great question came up as to what loop was faster when iterating over an object. If you are curious about Array loops please see this post. After some poking around the net we found lots of answers but every answer was specific to their platform or…
While on a Google Apps Script Discord Server a great question came up as to what loop was faster when iterating over an array. If you are curious about Object loops please see this post. After some poking around the net we found lots of answers but every answer was specific to their platform or…
When we first moved to Google Workspaces (Gsuite at the time) from our Exchange Server one of the basic necessities that we needed was the ability to set a company wide template for Gmail users. We found work arounds like using GAM and Windows PowerShell to set each users signature, it worked but it felt…
I was tasked recently to create an In and Out Google App Script so users could set their status so that others can see who was in or out of the office using a Google Calendar. Currently users message reception and then they create an event in the Ins & Outs calendar. I have started…
So you are a Google Workspace admin and have found out that some of your users have unmanaged Google accounts that are using your managed Google Workspace domain name. This can happen for a few reasons: The user had a free Google account before you switched your domain over to Google Workspace. You have split…
