diff --git a/source/_posts/2021-04-09-community-highlights.markdown b/source/_posts/2021-04-09-community-highlights.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..79e5fc07c6e --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/2021-04-09-community-highlights.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +--- +title: "Community Highlights: 16th edition" +description: "Google Home custom integration so you can read timers and alarms, get started with the tempometer gauge card and a lot of new inspiration for your own Lovelace dashboard." +date: 2021-04-09 00:00:00 +date_formatted: "April 9, 2021" +author: Klaas Schoute +author_twitter: klaasnicolaas +categories: Community +og_image: /images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/social.png +--- + +What did you think of [the release][release] last Wednesday? A +lot of cool things have been added! But there were also a lot of +great projects shared this week from the community and we have +selected the best for you. So here's the 16th edition of the Home +Assistant Community Highlights! + +Do you want to share something for the next edition? +Information on [how to share](#got-a-tip-for-the-next-edition). + +./Klaas + +## Blueprint of the week + +You're leaving home and oh dear! It turns out that one of your lights +is on 💡 What if you then receive a notification with an option to switch +off the light, without having to open the Home Assistant app first? + +
+ + Actionable notification demo + +
+ +With the blueprint from [vorion](https://community.home-assistant.io/u/vorion) +you can easily get started to create your own actionable notifications, give it +a try. Read more about it on the [community forum][week_blueprint] or install this +automation in your instance with a click on the my button! + +{% my blueprint_import badge blueprint_url="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/actionable-notifications-for-android/256773" %} + +## Google Home + +Long ago it was possible to read the alarms and timers from your Google Home +in Home Assistant, due to a change in the API this was unfortunately no longer possible. + + + +But thanks to a new [custom integration](https://github.com/leikoilja/ha-google-home) +from [leikoilja](https://github.com/leikoilja), it’s now possible to integrate alarms +or timers that you have set up on a Google Home device. For example, you could switch +the lights automatically in the morning based on an alarm clock that you have set. + +## Tempometer Gauge Card + +
+ + Tempometer Gauge card + +
+ +Are you looking for a card to spice up your existing gauge card? +Then try the [tempometer gauge card](https://github.com/SNoof85/lovelace-tempometer-gauge-card) made by [SNoof85](https://github.com/SNoof85). + + + +## Lovelace Dashboard + +This week also a Lovelace dashboard and this time that of [agneevX](https://github.com/agneevX), +the nice thing about this dashboard is that it's designed from a mobile first principle. Which +means that you make a design / dashboard for the smallest screen (mobile) and then work out step +by step how it will look on a larger screen (desktop). + +
+ + Lovelace dashboard + +
+ +You can find all his code in [this repository](https://github.com/agneevX/my-ha-setup) on Github. + +## Got a tip for the next edition? + +Have you seen (or made) something awesome, interesting, unique, amazing, +inspirational, unusual or funny, using Home Assistant? + +[Click here to send us your Community Highlight suggestion](/suggest-community-highlight). + +Also, don't forget to share your creations with us via Social Media: + +- Tweet it! Be sure to mention [@home_assistant][twitter] +- Share it on our [Facebook group][facebook-group] +- Post it to our [subreddit][reddit] +- Tag [@homeasssistant][instagram] on Instagram +- Or via chat, drop us a line in the [#lounge at Discord][chat] + +See you next edition! + +[chat]: https://www.home-assistant.io/join-chat +[facebook-group]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HomeAssistant +[instagram]: https://www.instagram.com/homeassistant +[reddit]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant +[twitter]: https://www.twitter.com/home_assistant +[blueprints]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/blueprints-exchange +[release]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/04/07/release-20214/ +[week_blueprint]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/actionable-notifications-for-android/256773 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/dashboard.png b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/dashboard.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c504be72723 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/dashboard.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/gauge.png b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/gauge.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0d1b6e75c77 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/gauge.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/notify.jpeg b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/notify.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..458158088d4 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/notify.jpeg differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/social.png b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/social.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..08da4ac854d Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2021-04-09-community-highlights/social.png differ