✨ The 18th community highlight! (#17564)

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+title: "Community Highlights: 18th edition"
+description: "Pause a movie with a blueprint, get started with the EV Charger Card and an update from the internship regarding Home Assistant Energy!"
+date: 2021-04-23 00:00:00
+date_formatted: "April 23, 2021"
+author: Klaas Schoute
+author_twitter: klaasnicolaas
+categories: Community
+og_image: /images/blog/2021-04-23-community-highlights/social.png
+---
+
+The 18th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting
+things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
+
+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 probably recognize it, while watching a movie you need to go to the
+toilet and you forget to pause the movie! What if you could automate this
+with a blueprint?
+
+{% my blueprint_import badge blueprint_url="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/pause-movie-when-light-is-switched-on/289882" %}
+
+With the blueprint from [jfedor](https://community.home-assistant.io/u/jfedor)
+you can pause your media player by turning on a light and if you turn it off
+within a certain time, the media player will continue. Read more about it on
+the [community forum][week_blueprint] or install this automation in your instance
+with a click on the my button!
+
+## Lovelace Dashboard
+------
+
+Also this week we have a new Lovelace dashboard for the necessary portion of
+inspiration 😄 This time it has become that of [Crixle](https://www.reddit.com/user/Crixle/),
+what he has made in the past 5 months. Possibly this design can be used quite
+well for a tablet on the wall. Take also a look at the [original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/mufpxw/complete_newbie_5_months_ago_and_this_is_what_my/) on Reddit
+
+<div style="margin:0 auto; text-align:center">
+    <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/mufpxw/complete_newbie_5_months_ago_and_this_is_what_my/" target="_blank">
+        <img
+            src='/images/blog/2021-04-23-community-highlights/dashboard.png'
+            alt="Preview from battery state card"
+            style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;width:100%;margin-bottom:15px;'
+        />
+    </a>
+</div>
+
+Would you also like your dashboard to be in the community highlight? Drop it
+on [Reddit][reddit] and maybe I'll pick it out for the next edition.
+
+## EV Charger Card
+------
+
+<div style="margin:0 auto; text-align:center">
+    <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/mufpxw/complete_newbie_5_months_ago_and_this_is_what_my/" target="_blank">
+        <img
+            src='/images/blog/2021-04-23-community-highlights/charger-card.png'
+            alt="Preview of the EV Charger Card"
+            style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;width:60%;margin-bottom:15px;'
+        />
+    </a>
+</div>
+
+Looking for a way to show the charging of your electric car in a beautiful
+way in Lovelace? Then try the [EV Charger card](https://github.com/tmjo/charger-card)
+made by [tmjo](https://github.com/tmjo).
+
+<a href="https://github.com/tmjo/charger-card"><img style="border: 0;" src="https://gh-card.dev/repos/tmjo/charger-card.svg"></a>
+
+## Home Assistant Energy
+------
+__*Internship progress*__
+
+It has been 11 weeks since I started as an intern at [Nabu Casa][nabu_casa], where
+I focus on how Home Assistant can be used to gain insight into your energy data and
+how to optimize your consumption. Time to give a brief summary of what is currently
+going on.
+
+We are currently trying to design a ready-made Lovelace dashboard, in which all your
+energy data comes together. You can see a first paper prototype sketch below, if you
+have input on this topic, please share it with me via the [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/klaasnicolaas/status/1384584214402719746)!
+
+<div style="margin:0 auto; text-align:center">
+    <img
+        src='/images/blog/2021-04-23-community-highlights/sketch.png'
+        alt="Sketches that are made for Home Assistant Energy"
+        style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;width:90%;margin-bottom:15px;'
+    />
+</div>
+
+In addition, I’m also working on an analog pulse meter, working with [ESPHome][esphome]
+that you can use to read the pulse LED on a meter. YAML configs for power plugs from
+Blitzwolf etc.
+
+More information can also be found in the twitter thread below.
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m doing an internship at <a href="https://twitter.com/NabuCasa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NabuCasa</a> with the goal to discover how <a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@home_assistant</a> can be used to gain insight in your energy usage and help optimize it.<br><br>I will be using this thread to show some of the things that I have done so far. <a href="https://t.co/0lLJxt15Nn">pic.twitter.com/0lLJxt15Nn</a></p>&mdash; Klaas Schoute (@klaasnicolaas) <a href="https://twitter.com/klaasnicolaas/status/1384584214402719746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+## 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
+[community]: https://community.home-assistant.io
+[nabu_casa]: https://www.nabucasa.com
+[esphome]: https://esphome.io
+[week_blueprint]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/pause-movie-when-light-is-switched-on/289882