Maintaining a smart home
It turns out you can’t just set up a smart home and expect everything to keep running smoothly. A certain amount of routine maintenance is essential…
Humble pie and GnuCash
Time for me to eat some humble pie and admit defeat. About a year ago I started a project to write a simple home finance system for myself…
Project Euler
Can you get a more geeky hobby than one which combines maths and computer programming?
Going back to Windows
I’ve heard the saying that once you go Mac you never go back… well, I went back…
Managing Zoneminder notifications with Home Assistant
The last few posts have described how I got Zoneminder working with object detection and configured so that notifications are managed by Home Assistant…
Zoneminder and Home Assistant
I’ve got the excellent zmEventNotification configured but I’m not using it to send notifications directly. Here’s why…
Zoneminder object detection
It’s hard to eliminate false positives in motion detecting security cameras without also missing genuine events. Some expensive security cameras offer a solution – object detection…
Zoneminder setup
Following on from my last post, I’m going to talk about how I’ve linked Zoneminder and Home Assistant with the assistance of zmEventNotification. This week I’ll start with getting Zoneminder configured.,,
Zoneminder – a love/hate relationship
I have something of a love/hate relationship with Zoneminder. On the plus side, it’s probably the most comprehensive and full featured open source CCTV system for Linux…