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So recently with all the noise about Whatsapp changing its privacy policy and the drive to find an alternative messenger, I began to play around more with Signal. Having already successfully set up Telegram for use with Home-Assistant and Nodered, I decided to see if …
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Over the festive period, it seems like my online feeds were full to the brim with festive/holiday/celebration lighting projects. I must confess, aside from some addressable RGB stuff I had on my pc build, I hadn’t really played with it. I felt like I was …
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Really quick post. As a result of my 3 part Beginner’s guide to Node-red tutorials, some have reached out to tell me that they’ve been unable to run Node-red successfully. They have installed the add-on from the “Home Assistant Community Add-ons” section which can be …
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I’m a big fan of Plex, and have been using it for years. I have a lifetime Plexpass subscription, and an enterprise server containing not only all my movie and music backups, but also my TV recordings. I use an HD homerun which turns Plex …
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So for those of you who have been following my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been able to create my own entities in Google Home and Alexa. This has allowed me to not only control entities that aren’t specifically “working with XYZ” but also to …
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One of the things I’ve been meaning to get for a while now was a Sonoff R3 Pro. Now for those of you not familiar with this device, it’s essentially a 4 channel smart switch. There’s a non-pro version and the pro version. I opted …
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If you’ve read part 1 and part 2, then you’ll already know how to work with MQTT (both receiving and sending commands), how to take sensor information from home-assistant as well as control entities directly in home-assistant, and most importantly, how to work with the …
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In part 1 of this series we discussed simple configuration of the MQTT in and out nodes, how to send a payload of On or Off and how to monitor incoming information in the debug window. In this post we’re going to expand on this …
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I’ve been helping a fair few people online recently with some introductory operations in node-red. I thought I would write a kind of primer to help the beginner get up to speed with some functional flows. I see a lot of information online about how …
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So it’s coming up to 2 years now since i’ve had the xiaomi aqara sensors up and running, and I thought i’d give everyone an update as to how they’ve performed, battery life etc, as well as some things I’ve been doing with them. If …
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