Home Automation | Mike Polinowski

📄️INSTAR go2rtc for Home Assistant

Use go2rtc to embed your INSTAR IP camera's webRTC live video in Home Assistant, ioBroker, Node-RED or OpenHab (Docker)

📄️Home Assistant with RTSPtoWeb

Home Assistant with WebRTC for INSTAR IP cameras using RTSPtoWeb.

📄️Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Node-RED, ioBroker, MotionEye, ZoneMinder, Frigate, iSpy Agent, Kerberos Containerized (Docker)

Smarthome Cheat Sheet (Docker Edition)

📄️Camera Surveillance System with OpenCV

Using OpenCV to detect motion in an RTSP Stream and display detection in an PyQt Interface

📄️(Re) Introduction to Home Assistant Auto-discovery

Using the INSTAR IP Cameras MQTT Interface to add your Camera to Home Assistant.

📄️OpenThread Border Router with Docker with Docker

Build an OpenThread Border Router with Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Pitaya Go.

📄️OpenThread Border Router

Build an OpenThread Border Router with Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Pitaya Go.

📄️MQTT Auto-Discovery - Use Node-RED to register Smarthome Devices

Previously I wrote a Python Script that allowed me to register MQTT devices with Home Assistant using the HA internal auto-discovery service. The same script can be used to register those devices with OpenHAB using the homie convention. Now I want to use Node-RED to dynamically register devices, instead of providing fixed configuration files for each device.

📄️Run Camera.UI with Docker-Compose

camera.ui is a NVR like PWA to control your RTSP capable cameras with.

📄️Convert RTSP to HLS using FFmpeg

INSTAR IP Camera RTSP Stream to HLS with FFMPEG

📄️Grafana IoT Dashboard

Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

📄️OpenHab - MQTT Homie Convention

I want to use OpenHab 3 to explore how to configure devices using the Homie Convention with the goal of adding this feature to INSTAR MQTT cameras. I already set-up the OpenHab MQTT Binding which supports the convention. So all I have to do is to add a few configuration topics to register a Homie Device with our MQTT broker using the MQTT Explorer.

📄️Node-RED - MQTT Homie Convention

I want to use Node-RED to explore how to configure devices using the Homie Convention with the goal of adding this feature to INSTAR MQTT cameras.

📄️Home Assistant - MQTT Auto-Discovery :: Configuration

Guangzhou, China

📄️Home Assistant - MQTT Auto-Discovery :: Automation

Guangzhou, China

📄️Home Assistant - Python Scripts as Service

The discovery of MQTT devices will enable one to use MQTT devices with only minimal configuration effort on the side of Home Assistant. Two parts are required on the device side - The configuration topic which contains the necessary device type and unique identifier, and the remaining device configuration without the device type.