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+    <a href="/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/">Community Highlights</a>
+  </h1>
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+    <time datetime="2016-02-20T09:06:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 20, 2016</time>
+    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
+    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> two minutes reading time</span>
+    <span>
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+    <ul class="tags unstyled">
+        <li>Community</li>
+        <li>Video</li>
+    </ul>
+  </span>
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+         >Comments</a>
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+</header>
+  <div class="entry-content clearfix">
+    <p>Home Assistant land has been busy and a lot of people have been creating awesome stuff. We’ve added <a href="/cookbook/">a cookbook section</a> to the website full of examples how you can automate different things. Make sure you take a look and share your own recipes too!</p>
+<h3><a class="title-link" name="home-automation-demo-by-part-of-the-thing" href="#home-automation-demo-by-part-of-the-thing"></a> Home automation demo by Part of the Thing</h3>
+<div class="videoWrapper">
+  <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mc_29EC3aZw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
+</div>
+<h3><a class="title-link" name="haaska---alexa-skill-adapter-for-home-assistant" href="#haaska---alexa-skill-adapter-for-home-assistant"></a> Haaska - Alexa Skill Adapter for Home Assistant</h3>
+<p>Haaska allows you to control lights, switches, and scenes exposed by your Home Assistant instance using an Amazon Echo. This is different from our own <a href="/components/alexa/">Alexa</a> component because it will teach the Amazon Echo directly about the devices instead of teaching it to talk to Home Assistant. It will not allow you to use custom sentences but it will allow you to skip the ‘Ask Home Assistant’ part when giving commands:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>“Alexa, set kitchen to twenty percent”</li>
+  <li>“Alexa, turn on evening scene”</li>
+  <li>“Alexa, turn off bedroom light”</li>
+</ul>
+<p><a href="https://github.com/auchter/haaska">Haaska on GitHub</a></p>
+<h3><a class="title-link" name="integrating-home-assistant-with-homekit" href="#integrating-home-assistant-with-homekit"></a> Integrating Home Assistant with HomeKit</h3>
+<p>Contributor Maddox has created a plugin for HomeBridge, an open-source HomeKit bridge. This will allow you to control your home using Siri on your Apple devices. HomeBridge has recently restructured so you’ll have to install the plugin separately with the homebridge-homeassistant npm package.</p>
+<p>Example config.json entry to load Home Assistant:</p>
+<div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s2">"platforms"</span><span class="err">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="w">
+    </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
+        </span><span class="nt">"platform"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"HomeAssistant"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
+        </span><span class="nt">"name"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"HomeAssistant"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
+        </span><span class="nt">"host"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"http://192.168.1.50:8123"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
+        </span><span class="nt">"password"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"xxx"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
+        </span><span class="nt">"supported_types"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"light"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"switch"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"media_player"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"scene"</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w">
+    </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
+</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w">
+</span></code></pre>
+</div>
+<p><a href="https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge">HomeBridge on GitHub</a>
+<a href="https://github.com/maddox/homebridge-homeassistant">HomeBridge Home Assistant Plugin</a></p>
+<h3><a class="title-link" name="custom-alarm-system-with-home-assistant" href="#custom-alarm-system-with-home-assistant"></a> Custom alarm system with Home Assistant</h3>
+<p>User thaijames <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/controlling-house-alarm-from-ha/67">describes in the Home Assistant forums</a> how he has created his own NFC-based alarm system using Home Assistant, DIY components and Garfield dolls.</p>
+<p class="img">
+<img src="/images/blog/2016-02-community-highlights/garfield-nfc.png" />
+Hold your NFC tag against the belly of Garfield to unlock the alarm.
+</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
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+  <h1 class="beta">
+    <a href="/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/">Multi-room audio with Snapcast, Mopidy, and Home Assistant</a>
+  </h1>
+  <div class="meta clearfix">
+    <time datetime="2016-02-18T05:10:56+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 18, 2016</time>
+    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> happyleavesaoc</span>
+    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> four minutes reading time</span>
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+    <ul class="tags unstyled">
+        <li>How-To</li>
+    </ul>
+  </span>
+      <a class='comments'
+         href="/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/#disqus_thread"
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+  <div class="entry-content clearfix">
+    <p>Would you like to listen to music in every room in your home, controlled from one source? Then multi-room audio is for you.</p>
+<p>Multi-room audio can be achieved by having a computer attached to speakers in every room. On each computer, services run to play and/or control the audio. With this DIY approach, the kind of computer and speakers is very much up to you. It could be your desktop computer with attached powered speakers, your HTPC hooked up to your TV and receiver, a Raspberry Pi with Amp or DAC, or even an Android device.</p>
+<p>You’ll need two key software packages, besides Home Assistant. The first is <a href="https://www.mopidy.com/">Mopidy</a>, a music server that can play local files, or connect to streaming music services like Spotify. The second is <a href="https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/">Snapcast</a>, which enables synchronized audio streaming across your network. Both can be integrated into Home Assistant. Each room audio device will run an instance of the Snapcast client, and optionally a Mopidy instance. Your server will run a special instance of Mopidy and the Snapcast server.</p>
+<p>Finally, you also need a player to control Mopidy. Any MPD-compatible player will work, and there are several <a href="https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/ext/web/#ext-web">Mopidy-only web-based options</a> available. On Android, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.anil.remotedy">Remotedy</a> is particularly nice since you can access multiple Mopidy instances in one place.</p>
+<p>Home Assistant will provide device status, and volume control for each room. If you want to play music in all your rooms (on all your clients), access the server instance of Mopidy. If you want to play music only in a specific room, access that specific Mopidy instance. If you’re using a web UI for Mopidy, you can add links to each instance in Home Assistant with the <a href="/components/weblink/">weblink</a> component.</p>
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+  <img src="/images/blog/2016-02-snapcast/diagram.png" />
+</p>
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-    <a href="/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/">[Update: decision reversed!] Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights</a>
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-    <time datetime="2015-12-12T18:44:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> December 12, 2015</time>
-    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
-    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> 1 minute reading time</span>
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-    <p><strong>Update Dec 16</strong>: Great news! Philips has decided to <a href="http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-update">reverse their decision</a> and is working on a software update to allow 3rd party light bulbs again.</p>
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-Philips Hue FAQ entries regarding reversing the decision.
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-<p><em>Original post:</em></p>
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-    <a href="/blog/2015/12/10/activating-tasker-tasks-from-home-assistant-using-command-line-switches/">Activating Tasker tasks from Home Assistant using command line switches</a>
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-    <time datetime="2015-12-10T10:39:41+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> December 10, 2015</time>
-    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Rowan Hine</span>
-    <span><i class='icon-time'></i> three minutes reading time</span>
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-In this tutorial I will explain how you can activate Tasker tasks from Home Assistant command line switches. We are going to set up a switch that when toggled will make your Android device say either “On” or “Off”.</p>
-<p>You could also do this with the automation component instead so whenever you put your house to sleep mode for example your Android device will open up Google Play Books or the Kindle app ready for you to read as well as dimming your lights, but this tutorial is all about the switches.</p>
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