Reading Time: 11 minutes Ok, now for something a bit different, and this will be a bit more in depth as a tutorial rather than just my ramblings. The […]
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Answers to commonly answered home automation questions, write-ups on projects that I’ve done and my personal opinions of stuff from here and there.
Node-RED Dashboard
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ok, in a previous post about dashboards I’ve mentioned HADashboard which runs under appdaemon on Home Assistant. I’ve really liked this since I started using […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Don’t get me wrong, I think the Pi is a brilliant piece of kit. For me, the Pi 4 with Home Assistant, a Conbee II […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This one’s a relatively new departure for me but I’ve been well impressed so far. I’m sure most people have heard of Plex. If not, […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous post about SmartThings I mentioned that one of the things I found useful was to have the house in a “mode”. Home […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes One common requirement with home automation is to turn a light on with motion and then off again after a set period of no motion. […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of my devices are controlled by automations. Lights come on depending on light levels and/or motion. They can be overridden with physical smart switches. […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This was a bit of a nightmare for something that should have been really simple. I was being thick and I missed something critical in […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a well split camp in home automation groups and the subject of many long threads wherever you look. It probably goes along the […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a neat little trick I recently set up in my home office. At the moment, there are 2 lights and an LED strip […]
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