Simple ideas to assist with your smarthome renovation
If you’re running an instance of Adguard in Docker on your network and wish to connect this to the Home-Assistant integration, you might have issues actually getting them to connect. I had tried several different variations of http/https, ssl on/off, verify on/off and even varying …
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Itead hasn’t paid for this review, but they did send me the products to have a play with. All opinions are my own. Unboxing Itead were kind enough to send me a small parcel containing their Sonoff CAM Slim, a new NSPanel Pro and enclosure …
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In this post, I am going to review the Dusun Smart Gateway, from the initial unboxing to set up and my final thoughts. TL:DR – lot’s of potential, but only in the hands of someone with some serious Linux-Fu! So towards the end of last …
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So a couple of days ago, Ryan from Violet reached out to me to let me know that the main feature that I was waiting for on their smart switch had been released and was out in the wild. It was now possible to integrate …
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So following on from a previous post showing you how to utilise an Elgato Stream Deck in your home automation, I’ve recently been alerted to a new Stream Deck integration which has simplified everything. In the past, I’ve showed you various ways of integrating the …
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As a follow on to my SwitchBot Bot review I wrote a few weeks ago, I have finally had a chance to have a play with the SwitchBot Hub Mini that SwitchBot were kind enough to send me to review. In this post, I’ll give …
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So recently I’ve been looking to find a small low powered machine that I could use as a small media server. I’m currently abroad so I was looking for a light weight machine that I could move around quite easily, but would also be sufficiently …
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SwitchBot were kind enough to send me a pack of SwitchBot Bots and their SwitchBot hub mini for me to have a play with and to see if I could do something cool with them. I’ve included some links to various products in the blog. …
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So this was something I’d been looking at doing for a long time. A while back I bought a load of NFC tags on Amazon for use in some projects around the house. Up until now, I’d struggled to see the use case for many …
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It’s been a long time since I’ve been impressed this much with a piece of software. I love this software almost as much as I love Node-red. I’ve wanted the ability to have different machines in different locations all connected in a way that I …
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