https://bonani.tech/A simple blog about tech stuff. 2025-05-18T13:09:44-04:00 Mauricio Bonani https://bonani.tech/ Jekyll © 2025 Mauricio Bonani /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2020-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2021-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 https://bonani.tech/how-to-trigger-a-node-red-flow-from-the-home-assistant-ui-new-version/ Mauricio Bonani

Until a few months ago, I was using this method to trigger a flow from the Home Assistant UI. Although it works fine, it’s not very elegant. Empty scripts cause linting warnings, and we don’t know if that will be forever supported by Home Assistant. As pointed out by iantrich (a long time ago! 😳) in the comments section of my old post, since version 0.20.0 of node-red-contrib-home-assistant-we...

2020-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2024-05-12T11:51:44-04:00 https://bonani.tech/motion-activated-lights-with-switch-override/ Mauricio Bonani

How to activate a light with a motion sensor and override it with a switch? This is a recurring subject on the Forums, Reddit, and Discord. Here’s how I do it. The light switch in my kitchen is connected to a Shelly 1 flashed with ESPHome with the configuration below. esphome: name: shelly1 platform: ESP8266 board: esp01_1m wifi: ssid: !secret wifi_ssid password: !secret wifi_passwo...

2020-05-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-05-12T11:51:44-04:00 https://bonani.tech/a-good-practice-when-sharing-node-red-flows-with-home-assistant-nodes/ Mauricio Bonani

So you’ve created an amazing flow, and now you want to share it with the world. How to minimize the chances of issues for those who are going to import this flow? It’s important to keep that in mind, especially when you are sharing flows with Home Assistant nodes. Nobody wants to end up with multiple server nodes by mistake. Before sharing If you want to share a flow, it’s a good practic...

2019-07-14T11:00:00-04:00 2024-05-12T07:02:10-04:00 https://bonani.tech/how-to-trigger-a-node-red-flow-from-the-home-assistant-ui/ Mauricio Bonani

I see a lot of people who use Node-RED as their automation engine looking for a way to trigger a flow from the Home Assistant UI. Here’s how I do it. First I created an empty script. script: good_morning: sequence: And a button in Lovelace. - type: entity-button entity: script.good_morning name: "Good Morning" icon: mdi:coffee tap_action: action: call-service servic...

2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 https://bonani.tech/smartening-up-a-dumb-light-switch-to-control-smart-bulbs/ Mauricio Bonani

I see a lot of people having issues and/or doubts about the light switches when installing smart bulbs in their homes. This is how I do it in my house. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have several LIFX installed in the house. And, using only the original switches with them was out of the question. If a switch were turned off, the functionalities of the bulbs connected to that circuit woul...