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+    <a href="/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/">Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and Home Assistant</a>
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+    <time datetime="2016-02-09T07:44:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 09, 2016</time>
+    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Jeremiah Wuenschel and St. John Johnson</span>
+    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> nine minutes reading time</span>
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+    <p><em>This is a guest post by Home Assistant users <a href="https://github.com/jer">Jeremiah Wuenschel</a> and <a href="https://github.com/stjohnjohnson">St. John Johnson</a>.</em></p>
+<p>So you own a <a href="http://smartthings.com">SmartThings</a> Hub. You probably bought it when you were looking to get into the whole Home Automation hobby because it worked with pretty much everything and offered you the ability to automate <strong>anything.</strong> After a week of ownership, you realized that building dashboards and automating required writing way more Groovy then you expected. Then one day you were browsing <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation">reddit</a> and discovered the amazingness that is Home Assistant! A solution that offered dashboards, graphs, working support for Nest, and REAL EASY automation!</p>
+<p>You spent your weekend getting everything set up, showing it off to your significant other, but in the end you got stumped when it came to integrating with all your existing SmartThings toys. What do I do now? Should I buy another hub? Should I just buy a Z-Wave stick?</p>
+<p>That’s where we came in. We wanted a solution that can bridge the awesomeness of Home Assistant with the SmartThings hub that works with almost everything.</p>
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+      <a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/#read-more">Read on &rarr;</a>
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-    <a href="/blog/2015/12/05/community-highlights/">Community Highlights</a>
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-    <time datetime="2015-12-05T23:39:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> December 5, 2015</time>
-    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
-    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> Less than one minute reading time</span>
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-    <p>From time to time we come along things that are worth sharing with fellow Home Assisters. Here a list of some cool stuff from last week:</p>
-<p>First is the public beta of <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let’s Encrypt</a>. Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is free, automated and open. This means that it will now be very easy to secure your connection to Home Assistant while you are away from home. W1ll1am23 has written up <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeassistant-nginx-ssl-proxy-setup/53">a guide how to get started</a>.</p>
-<p>The next thing is a show-off of some of the cool stuff people do with Home Assistant. This is miniconfig talking to Home Assistant using the Amazon Echo!</p>
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-<p>And last but not least, Midwestern Mac did a <a href="http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card">microSD card performance comparison</a> for the Raspberry Pi. If you’re using a Pi, make sure to check it out!</p>
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