Custom Button Card Pt2: Fonts, Weights, Backgrounds and Glows

Following the success of 'Custom Button' Card Part: 1, that featured spinning and flashing lovelace icons. Comes Part:2...

In this 2nd tutorial, in the growing 'Custom Button' Card series, you'll see how advance your icon game.

From font sizes to weights, shadows and even glowing text, this next episode takes you again step-by-step through everything you need to make your dashboards literally shine.

Coming soon... Part: 3, where even more customisation is profiled. Even more elaborate backgrounds, blending options and even live video!!

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Drone Landing #Shorts

Using After Effects 3D Camera Tracking to get keyframe data in to Lightwave3D. 

The 'Drone' was animated and the frames were sent back to After Effects for rendering.

I have a full tutorial on the process, which can be viewed here:

#Tutorial : After Effects 3D Camera Track to #Lightwave3D

Home Assistant Node-Red: Streamline Switch and Light Flows

Using Alexa and Node-Red together you can do some powerful things. However, if you control many switches and lights, things can quickly get 'busy' and cluttered.

With an Alexa node flowing in to a 'Switch' node that then links to a 'Call Service' node of On and another for Off, that's a four node string just to control a simple device.

With a payload that already contains 'On' & 'Off', and with the use of variables, it's easy to drop this number to just two nodes... However, things get a little more complicated for Lights - That need, at least, three nodes.

In this video tutorial, I'll show how to use variables and how you can use the same nodes over and over to massively streamline your Alexa Flows. A technique that can be applied to many aspects of Node-Red.

Part of an hilarious named playlist for quick and to-the-point tutorials.
Check it out here: "Just the Tip!" Playlist