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Controlling the Elecraft K4 and KPA1500 with Home Assistant

For awhile now I have wanted to be able to have my “Goodnight” scene in HomeAssistant turn off my network attached ham gear. I finally had a chance to do some experimenting and created this config to turn on and off the KPA1500.This sends a command via UDP to the amp to turn it off and uses Wake_On_LAN to turn it on. A similar thing could be added for other device types. This is added to the configuration.yaml file. Put your real MAC address of the amp next to mac. If you mac address is…

Connecting a Kohler Generator to Home Assistant (work in progress)

*** There is now an Add-On for the Kohler Generator. *** I have been playing around with Home Assistant (HA). Briefly, it is a management system for IoT and other devices that is hosted internally (on a Raspberry Pi in my ham shack). With Home Assistant, it is natural to look for all the things that are already programmed to connect with and check their status. I already have the following items in Home Assistant: Lutron Caseta Switches Wemo Switches Rain Machine Sprinkler Controller Honeywell WiFI Thermostats Pi-Hole SensorPush temperature…