Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
I’m a big fan of Plex, and have been using it for years. I have a lifetime Plexpass subscription, and an enterprise server containing not only all my movie and music backups, but also my TV recordings. I use an HD homerun which turns Plex …
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I’ve been helping a fair few people online recently with some introductory operations in node-red. I thought I would write a kind of primer to help the beginner get up to speed with some functional flows. I see a lot of information online about how …
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This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been looking at an easy way to create and control custom entities with Google assistant much like the way I can do with Alexa. We have both voice assistants in our household and well it was …
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Recently I’ve seen a large pickup in people looking for advice on what kind of hardware is best to use for a suitable plex server. Having been a Plex user for 7-8 years+ and a lifetime subscriber, I thought I’d share some setups that I’m …
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I thought I’d write up a post detailing how we tackle presence detection and how we can run some simple modular automations on the back of it. I see many people asking online in the forums and on facebook which is the best way to …
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So I wanted to cover today a topic that I’ve briefly touched on in previous articles and that is notifications through LG’s WebOS. Home-Assistant has an integration that allows us to communicate directly with LG TVs (at least the most recent ones anyway) and it’s …
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Today I am going to give you a quick run through on how to set up a night light that’s fully automated and only comes on after dark. The idea is that if either my girlfriend or I need to get up in the night …
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Ok so I have been running Xiaomi Aqara sensors (zigbee) for more than a year now and they have been brilliant. So much so that I’ve just bought another load. When this package arrived through the door, my girlfriend made her usual comment about me …
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Ok so following on from my recent post on how to remove unwanted bloatware and junk from your windows 10 installation, I needed to install third party applications on to several new machines and was looking for a quick and easy way to do it. …
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