How to fix your Pi-Hole integration with Home Assistant
My Pi Hole has been broken for a while now. Not the actual Pi Hole service but the integration with Home Assistant. For a few months now, people…
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Alexa Beat Cortana … or is about to.
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is stopping development, support, and roll out of Cortana in several regional markets around the world. Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain,…
Adding Days Until Sensor to my Home Assistant Speech routines
A few videos and posts ago, we made a new Holiday sensor that would use Wolfram Alpha API to give us the days until a particular holiday. You…
How to Build Home Assistant Sensors using Wolfram Alpha
This weekend I decided to dig into some of my todo list items that have had sitting for a long while. This particular one was from December 20th…
Novostella 13W LED Bulb vs Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
This week was really fun. My friend and fellow Youtuber Paul Feinberg (@feinbergPaul) came by the house with his Novostella 13W LED Color Smart Bulb. The Novostella is…
How to add an SSL Certificate to Home Assistant (the old fashioned way)
So this blog post is mainly for ME to reference in about a year when I have to do this process again. The certificate I use for my…
How to Fix WiFi interference with WiFi Analyzer
If you have a Smart Home, access to reliable power and reliable internet are critical to the reliability of your IOT devices. I’ve discussed and tackled my power…
Want a free Amazon Echo Auto device?
I have mine sitting on my desk already BUT for those of you who haven’t made the choice to buy the $50 Echo Auto, this deal might be…
Cleaning up your Amazon Echo setup for better voice control
Every so often, it is good to do some maintenance items to keep things running smoothly. This video and post will detail what I do with the Amazon…