Memberships

We will always offer as much as we can for free on our website and other social media channels. We will never charge for education, but some configurations take a lot of time and effort to test and maintain, a simple upgrade can easily break devices.

Membership

Our paid memberships are aimed at reducing the time lost and the risk by supplying known configurations, guides, testing, upgrades and support. Our paid tier memberships are all located at Patreon. Once our YouTube channel is large enough, we will offer the membership there too.

What membership does

• Gives you a proven software stack (dashboards, automations, templates)
• Keeps it maintained as Home Assistant changes (monthly upgrade notes + updated files)
• Gives you help when you’re stuck

What membership doesn’t do

• It’s not a replacement for safe electrical installation
• It can’t guarantee compatibility with unsupported hardware or unusual wiring
• It doesn’t cover bespoke design work, custom work is outside the scope of regular memberships

Membership Tiers

Perks

Depending upon the tier chosen, our paid memberships offer the following perks.

3D Print Files

We offer our own 3D print files for brackets and enclosures. We just provide the files, you will need a 3D printer to print them.

Ad-free Videos

Our videos on Youtube are posted direct and therefore no Google adverts.

Sensa Packs Download

Many of our Sensa Integrations are offered for free as a one off, but our Packs offer a way to download all our integrations fully tested on the latest version of Home Assistant. We also offer additional dashboards and automations.

Development Updates

We will keep you up to date with what we are working on and new releases.

Discord Server

We have our discord server, which is regarded as one of the best chat apps available. Our Discord has a general chat and an announcements channel fed by the manufacturer announcement channels. This option is available to ANYONE with the invite code. This allows us to give Discord access to customers who are not in Patreon. Discord supports matching roles for the Patreon tiers so we can separate all the content and features for our paid members.

Early Access Videos

We will always post our blogs and videos a day earlier on Patreon for our paid members.

General Chat

Patreon has a general chat feature, and off course we have the chat channels in our Discord server. You choose which you prefer. We will do our best to monitor both so we can answer as many questions as possible.

Monthly Software Report

Our goal for the Configuration Support service is to take away the time, risk and frustration when upgrading software. Home Assistant and ESP typically publish a new release at the beginning of each month. Some others are less frequent. We will test all our Integrations with all the latest software. We will publish a summary on what is new, what has changed and we will provide any new configuration changes required for your devices.

Monthly Web Call (30 mins)

For our Pro tier, we do offer a 30 minute web or phone chat each month. The time is yours, so you can ask for some consultancy, talk through a project, some ideas, whatever you want. My dog Tiki may even join us.

Support BlackPaw

We could not offer free integrations and all this support to the community without the support of our members. Thank you for supporting us.

Vote For New Integrations

We have a long list of integrations we want to publish, this perk allows you to vote for your favourite.