Maximize your Alexa Routines – Scheduled Volume Control for Echo Devices
Alexa Routines are very cool. I use Home Assistant, but even if you are just using stock Amazon Echo products, you can start to accomplish a lot of automation…
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Breaking down my Home Assistant Volume Control
This is part one of two posts and videos on how I am controlling the volume of various Home Assistants throughout the day. In the Video attached, I…
Routine Tasks; Adding Tesla PowerWall sensors to my Home Assistant!
More routine maintenance of my Smart Home. This time we are closing out Github issue #429! stbenjam had a nice piece of code in his repo that showed…
Routine Tasks; Upgrading Home Assistant to Latest Beta!
Once you are running in Docker, upgrading Home Assistant (or rolling back for that matter) is really just a few clicks away. The release cycle of Home Assistant…
Cortana, Meet Alexa!
So this one gets filed under the I’m not really sure I need this file. But that is because I have about 10 Echo devices around the house…
Prevent explicit content with Alexa Parental Controls
Have you ever had Alexa play some inappropriate music throughout the house while the family was over? Fear not! Amazon has released Explicit Filter mode! This is a…
Port Forwarding on the ARRIS TG1682 Modem Router
After finding out the Sagemcom F@st 5260 didn’t support Local NAT Loopback, I was forced to change my Modem/Router combination again. For those that don’t know, the Local…
Easy Smart Home Gadgets I use for my Holiday Lighting setup!
Happy Halloween! This post is about the smart home gadgets I’ve added to my Holiday decoration tool set. Paired with Home Assistant for ultimate smarts and automation, this…
New Facebook Portal!–Works with Alexa.
Facebook is in the hardware game! The new Facebook Portal (and plus) is a video screen that is kind of like the Amazon Echo show. It’s a screen…