Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
Recently I’ve seen a large pickup in people looking for advice on what kind of hardware is best to use for a suitable plex server. Having been a Plex user for 7-8 years+ and a lifetime subscriber, I thought I’d share some setups that I’m …
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Recently I upgraded my Home-Assistant supervised (formerly Hassio) installation from 0.113.4 to 0.114.3 (I usually like to wait for a couple of releases so the bugs can be ironed out by others!). I did a quick back up using the G-drive snapshot add-on and waited …
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I thought I’d write up a post detailing how we tackle presence detection and how we can run some simple modular automations on the back of it. I see many people asking online in the forums and on facebook which is the best way to …
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I recently decided to try an add-on called IOTlink. I was looking for a way to remotely monitor and control my main workstation pc. IOTlink seemed to be just the answer. In layman’s terms, it appears to install an MQTT client in Windows which continually …
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So after 18 months in our current home we decided to move out into nature and try and get away from it all for a while. Not only did this mean we could get further into the mountains, and start to enjoy the wilderness a …
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I recently saw a request in one of the forums online asking for help on how to trigger events when certain events happen in plex. I thought I would write a quick tutorial to show how this can be done in Node-red. With the help …
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Today I am going to give you a quick run through on how to set up a night light that’s fully automated and only comes on after dark. The idea is that if either my girlfriend or I need to get up in the night …
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Hey guys, with the release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server edition, i decided it was time to upgrade my home server that’s been happily running 18.04 LTS for a year or so already. I decided to do an in situ upgrade as opposed to starting …
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