Home automation upgrade woes
Most of the Home Assistant updates I’ve installed have gone smoothly, so it was only a matter of time before my luck ran out…
Home Assistant on WearOS via Tasker
The official Home Assistant Android app is getting support for WearOS. The feature is available for beta testing, but in the meantime you can achieve some control via Tasker…
Revisiting cloud backup of CCTV
Last year I described how I send CCTV footage from Zoneminder to OneDrive. I’m now using Frigate, so I had to make some changes…
Notifications with Frigate
If you use Frigate for motion detection, you’ll want notifications…
Goodbye Zoneminder, hello Frigate
I’ve been a long time user of Zoneminder but not any more…
Getting started with Home Assistant automations
Home Assistant gives you a handy way of controlling your smart devices from a single interface, but the real power comes from adding automations…
Setting up Redhat to run Home Assistant
Today I’m going to look at installing Redhat on an intel NUC and then setting up a virtual machine to run Home Assistant…
Which OS?
The first step in my home server rebuild was to choose and install a base OS on which I could then run multiple virtual machines…
