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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Why No more Comments?
This week, I took steps to disable comments on the blog. The main driver for this was the lack of usage of said comments. I was using the…
I am not going to VMworld this year.
VMworld will be taking place this Monday (August 26th) and be hosted the entire week in San Francisco, California. This will be the 15th time VMware has organized…
My tweet went viral thanks to Elon Musk. Sort of.
So this is a story time type post. A couple months ago I wrote a small tweet about my Tesla PowerWall and it’s Storm Watch feature. If you…
Not attending #CitrixSynergy this week? Follow along from Home!
So if you decided to pass on actually going to Citrix Synergy 2019 in Atlanta because … well, Atlanta. BUT you still want to know what new and…
Revisiting the Pi on Pi Day with Home Assistant
March 14th is Pi Day. But Pi has a special meaning in my Smart Home. The raspberry pi was the first piece of hardware I bought to run…
2018 by the numbers–And new Channel Trailer!
As the year closes out, I just wanted to reflect on the progress of the blog and it’s related internet properties. Straight away, the blog got a huge…
Guest spot on the Home Assistant Podcast
I dropped in on the Home Assistant podcast crew recently to discuss the new 0.66 release and some of the new stuff I have been doing with my…
Giving the house a Twitter Account.
It’s official now. The Smart Home now has a twitter account. Why?Why not. I mean, the house is full of IOT devices that are communicating to the internet. …