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How to integrate your Roombas in Home Assistant
Integrating your Roombas in Home Assistant and setting up room-specific cleaning May 17, 2026  ·  6 min read This guide shows how to integrate your Roomba in Home assistant, trigger room-specific cleaning, and add some nice buttons to the GUI. To trigger room-specific cleaning from a Home Assistant dashboard button you need two values that iRobot never exposes in the UI: pmap_id and user_pmapv_id. This guide shows how to extract them directly from your robot using a small Python script. Step 1 — Create a Python virtual environment in VS Code... Read more...
Tandoor on Home Assistant
Tandoor Recipes in Home Assistant Sidebar Tandoor Recipes in the Home Assistant Sidebar May 17, 2026  ·  5 min read This guide shows how to embed Tandoor Recipes directly into the Home Assistant sidebar — including remote access through Nabu Casa — with automatic single sign-on using your HA account. Step 1 — Add the alexbelgium add-on repository In HA go to Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store. Click the ⋮ menu (top right) → Repositories. Paste the URL below and click Add: https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons Step 2 — Install Tandoor Recipes... Read more...