Sean's Technical Ramblings

Sprucing up my Home Assistant

Since I started using Home Assistant I’ve been using the basic display options in the front end. It’s been fine – it’s simple and a good starting point. Home Assistant, though, is far more flexible than that,,,

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When is a person not a person?

seanb3 weeks ago0 in Home Automation

Object detection – the ability to identify specific objects in a picture – has made all the difference to my Zoneminder camera monitoring…

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Samsung Health

seanb1 month ago0 in Random Musings

With more time on my hands due to lockdown I’ve been making an attempt to get fitter.,,

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What watts?

seanb2 months ago0 in Home Automation

I’m so bored in lockdown that I’ve been using a smart plug to measure power draw from various devices…

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The inevitable COVID-19 post

seanb3 months ago0 in Random Musings

I don’t normally write about the world outside of tech. It barely gets a passing mention on my blog. But everyone and his dog (or indeed pangolin) is talking about Coronavirus and I can’t help joining in…

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Stormy weather

seanb4 months ago0 in Home Automation

The recent storms gave me an idea for a new automation…

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Sending CCTV to the cloud

seanb4 months ago0 in Home Automation

I finally got round to adding another critical element to my Zoneminder CCTV system…

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Linux to OneDrive via Synology

seanb5 months ago0 in Home Automation

I run Home Assistant and a number of other things from a small Linux PC that acts as my server. It’s not storing much critical data but it would be a pain if I lost all of the configuration…

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