Yet another inexpensive Motion Sensor for Home Assistant
Taking inspiration from BruhAutomation’s multi sensor, I decided to make a simple ESP8266 based motion sensor for my house. Here’s the part List : 1 x NodeMCUs –…
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Speak naturally to your Alexa! Context aware lights available now!
My house is pretty tricked out.. Lights, Echoes, Home Assistant. All the bells and whistles for a proper Smart Home are in place. This is great for me,…
Moving Home Assistant DBs to external Flash Drives
So timing is everything… and my timing was perfect (ok, it was slow). Chatting in the Discord forums with some way smarter *nix users than me (Tinkerer and…
IOT Fun!–Interactive short film about a smart thermostat!
Here is a great little interactive film I ran across on Reddit. It’s a choose your own adventure type movie about a Smart Thermostat. It’s a common theme…
New Alexa Goodies announced!
So I love #IOT and today Amazon announced a bunch of new Amazon Echo devices! Here are the things I thought were interesting : The Echo Spot :…
Smart Home Lessons from Hurricane Irma
Florida is a great place. I love living here but every so often, between September and November, it gets a bit intense. This past week, #Irma rolled through…
Multi Room Audio for the Echo! It’s finally Here
So I’ve written about my Sound/Voice set up at the house before : Giving Voice to the Smart Home At the time, I really just wished that Amazon…
DIY LED Accent Lights for Your Home: A Step-by-Step Guide
Inspired by Ben’s awesome video on LED lights on his house, I decided to something similar. My approach is more off the shelf than his and I give…
Project Update : Visualization of the Home using Fire Tablets and Home Assistant [Final Mount]
So last month, I put out a project that demonstrated how I used a few Fire Tablets and Home Assistant to really give life to a new interface…