Using Home Assistant to fix my JuiceBox Pro 40 connection issues.
Today finally got around to resolving an issue that has been plaguing me for the past month or so. If you are a regular reader of the blog,…
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New Feature Alert : Amazon Alexa Brief Mode
Another very heavily requested feature has been released to Amazon Echo owners in the form of Alexa’s Brief Mode. This new feature allows you to globally turn off Alexa’s…
New Feature Alert! Alexa’s Remember this!
One of the features I have been wanting a WHILE for is now here with Alexa’s Remember this feature enhancement. You can now give Alexa (and Amazon obviously)…
Some of my Favorite Home Assistant resources!
I’m an avid user of Home Assistant for my smart home and while I produce a lot of content myself, I still spend time on the internet reading…
Broadcasts! Alexa’s new feature
Woke up today to another pretty cool gift from Amazon in terms of a new Alexa feature. This new one is called Broadcast. This new feature allows you…
Guest spot on the Home Assistant Podcast
I dropped in on the Home Assistant podcast crew recently to discuss the new 0.66 release and some of the new stuff I have been doing with my…
Nest announces remote temperature sensors
It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote a post on the basics of smart thermostats. One of the first things I mentioned when comparing Nest Thermostats and…
First real-time outage using the Tesla PowerWall 2
If you have been following my Solar journey as of late, you might know that I finally had the system turned on a few weeks ago. Energy production…
Alexa gets Follow Up Mode … Sort of.
There is a cool new update to Alexa devices that just came out. Follow-Up mode. This enhanced mode allows you to say ‘Alexa, Turn off the Kitchen lights’,…