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Reference guide for connecting popular APIs to Home Assistant via Node-RED, YAML, or custom integrations. Covers authentication, endpoints, and complete working examples for energy APIs (Tibber, Nordpool), weather (SMHI, OpenWeatherMap, yr.no), transport (SL, Trafikverket, Resrobot), smart home clouds (Shelly, Tuya, Philips Hue, IKEA), and global APIs (OpenAI, Spotify, Google Calendar, Telegram).

ESPHome device configuration, firmware, and IoT product development. Supports a wide range of microcontrollers (ESP32, ESP8266, RP2040, nRF52) and integrations (Shelly, Sonoff, Tuya, BLE proxy, Matter, Thread, Zigbee), covering GPIO, sensors, displays, LED strips, and voice assistant hardware.

Home Assistant custom integration development in Python, covering custom_components, DataUpdateCoordinator, config_flow, OAuth2, conversation agent, HACS publishing, device registry, entity platforms, services, repair issues, diagnostics, Bluetooth integrations, and multi-coordinator patterns.

Home Assistant YAML configuration and automation. This skill addresses common HA questions, covering automations, blueprints, scripts, scenes, template sensors, Lovelace dashboards, Mushroom cards, packages, helpers, presence detection, voice Assist, calendar automation, Jinja2 templates, notification patterns, and energy monitoring.

Node-RED visual automation flows for Home Assistant. Covers visual automation, flow JSON, trigger-state, api-call-service, function nodes, context storage, timer patterns, error handling, and node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket nodes.

Offers beautiful, copy-paste-ready Home Assistant dashboard designs with complete CSS themes, card-mod styles, and button-card templates. It includes nine distinct visual styles such as Glassmorphism, Material You, and Neon/Cyberpunk.

Aurora Smart Home orchestrator is the routing layer for all smart home skills. Use it to decide which skill to invoke for any question or task spanning multiple skills, invoking Aurora first to route to the correct specialist.