Tag: Smart Home

Maximize your Alexa Routines – Scheduled Volume Control for Echo Devices

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 ... Read More

Breaking down my Home Assistant Volume Control

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 ... Read More

Routine Tasks; Adding Tesla PowerWall sensors to my Home Assistant!

Routine Tasks; Adding Tesla PowerWall sensors to my Home Assistant!

<img width="1800" height="900" title="Tesla_wall" style="border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;" alt="Tesla_wall" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wcg3ScYX3oE/W_Sfp-HCuOI/AAAAAAADu1s/EgGiCqR2Ta8AEv-9uytdxgGFUJzQU2UFwCHMYCw/Tesla_wall%255B4%255D_thumb%255B2%255D?imgmax=800" border="0" /> More routine maintenance of my Smart Home.  This ... Read More

Routine Tasks; Upgrading Home Assistant to Latest Beta!

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 ... Read More

Cortana, Meet Alexa!

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 ... Read More