This video shows you how to control your PC via Home Assistant. It includes tips and tricks from creating dashboards using PC stats to being able to change live wallpapers based on weather or automations.

This is powered by the amazing HASS Workstation Service. I teamed it up with the amazing free open source Lively for animated desktop control, and show how to automate things such as webcam status (Zoom/Teams/etc) using window titles. I'll also show some dashboard basics with GPU/CPU stats and temp, and how to get the status of if a workstation is in use or locked.

There's a lot of links mentioned in this video, so here's a list for easy reference:
-== HASS Workstation Service by Sleevezipper ==-
Github - https://github.com/sleevezipper/hass-...
Releases - https://github.com/sleevezipper/hass-...

-== Lively Links by Dani John (RocksDanister) ==-
Lively homepage - https://rocksdanister.github.io/lively/
Lively Github - https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively
Lively Support and themes -   / livelywallpaper  
Lively Commandline documentation: https://github.com/rocksdanister/live...
Lively releases of livelycu (Note it's included in the release list)
https://github.com/rocksdanister/live...

-== Creating animated photos for your own Lively desktops ==-
Tutorial 1 (iOS/Android) -    • How to Animate Pictures for free! Plo...  
Tutorial 2 (iOS only) -    • Animating a movie poster with Werble ...  

-== Equipment used ==-
Blue Yeti Blackout mic (I love this mic for clear audio) - https://amzn.to/3eI0etj
Edited in Da Vinci Resolve - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
Captured in Powerpoint

-== If you want to follow me for behind the scenes stuff...==-
  / geektoolkit  

Huge thanks to Elsdrag00n for the music in this episode! Check out the full song on soundcloud
(which he makes live on his twitch stream!)
Elsdrag00n twitch:   / elsdrag00n  
Soundcloud for "Teacup":   / teacup  



Thanks a ton for the support!
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