Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
Ok so following on from Part 1 where I detailed the initial steps you can take to give your workstation or laptop a bit of a spring clean, I wanted to revisit and add the second part to the process. Part 1 has been particularly …
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So recently I’ve been looking to find a small low powered machine that I could use as a small media server. I’m currently abroad so I was looking for a light weight machine that I could move around quite easily, but would also be sufficiently …
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The day before your holiday… …you’re charging all your devices and working out what cables and chargers to bring. The whole family is fighting for bandwidth as they are trying to save various episodes and movies to their tablets from various services such as Netflix, …
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So this was something I’d been looking at doing for a long time. A while back I bought a load of NFC tags on Amazon for use in some projects around the house. Up until now, I’d struggled to see the use case for many …
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It’s been a long time since I’ve been impressed this much with a piece of software. I love this software almost as much as I love Node-red. I’ve wanted the ability to have different machines in different locations all connected in a way that I …
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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll realise that I’m the geek. If ever there’s a techy question I’m usually the first call from friends and family alike. Whether it be on home-automation, home cinema, computer problems or advice, I normally get …
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In this tutorial, I thought I’d show you how simple it is to utilise the Aqara sensors and link them directly to Google Home and Alexa. I will be building on top of some tutorials I’ve already published, so I’ll skip through some of the …
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Ok so the time has come for me to start down the surveillance/cctv pathway. My previous experience with CCTV has been somewhat patchy. In the family home previously we had an old analogue system, where you could remote into the NVR to view the cameras, …
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Now I’m always interested in increasing the ways that I can interact with my smarthome. If we’re speaking about Home-Assistant (and Nodered), I think I can classify my current ways of controlling elements of the home as follows: Online i.e. web browser / official HA …
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Quick and easy one today. There are several different ways of installing and running both Home-Assistant and Node-red. I have one instance of Home-Assistant Supervised (formerly Hassio) on an Intel Nuc. As it’s supervised, it has all the add-ons baked into it, and launching Node-red …
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