Giving Voice to the Smart Home
Voice is awesome in a home automation context! Whether it is Voice control, voice notifications or even just music; I love it. I believe it really adds something…
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My Smart Home – a LOOK at the parts that make up the sum.
I’ve put up a few posts about certain specific tech in the house [Check it out here] and some people have asked that I do a more complete…
Bring your smart home to life with Home Assistant and Fire tablets
I’ve been running Home Assistant for my home automation for almost 3 years now. The system has grow quite large and the User Interface was becoming pretty unwieldy…
PSA: Check out your smoke detectors (once every 10 years)
I have owned my house for just about a year now and I have been automating and ‘smartening’ it up like crazy. My home automation platform of choice…
Building my Home alarm system (Hardware Phase)
I have a house. It has prewired windows and doors that I want to use for my own purposes. I DON’T have an alarm company. I refuse to…
Home Protection from Power outages (Sort of) with the BGE70.
So June is the official start of Hurricane season down here in Florida. This is basically when it rains every day like clockwork from 4pm to 5:30. Unfortunately…