I recently had a need to use both Tuya local and Tuya cloud integrations in Home assistant. If you want some tips on how to make this work read here

ive recently updated my android head unit to the latest Joying Android 10 version with the new UI. Unfortunately, this model seems to put applications to sleep in the background after about 30 seconds. If anyone knows a way to stop this I’d be interested in your solution. Needless to say, this really does hamper my automate script and the Torque app.

I’ve made a few tweaks to the car telemetry script. You can download at https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/41011

Based on a number of requests, I have made updates to the car Telemetry automate script. Go to Automate community to download.

The Torque app was updated recently which meant that my ‘car telemetry script’ couldn’t find log file data. The author of Torque app has issued another update which makes log data accessable again. I have introduced a new automate script which provides more consistensy and guidance in setup, as people often get stuck on the same issue’s. This is version 13 of the script and is available in the automate community space. I’m also working on a version over Xmas which should allow a user to select the file location of the config file and the Torque log data file plus add some new features.

I’ve made a few tweaks to the car telemetry project.

This little project will provide a nice and cheap way of providing temperature and humidity information into Home assistant. It will work wherever you have good bluetooth coverage. Checkout the project here.

If you ever need to create a dynamic list (input Select) in Home Assistant, check out my worked example on the project page

I recently had to upgrade all my Sonoff switches. This is the fastest, least fuss way I found to do it on a Windows machine. See project page

Yesterday, I figured out how to implement long lived access tokens (LLAT) in Home Assistant and Llamalab Automate. I will be updating the Llamlab Automate script to allow both methods shortly. LLAT’s are useful if you want to allocate specific identity access to a client app. It also means you do not have to share your main API password for Home Assistant outside your secure environment.