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A year in Home Assistant
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A year in Home Assistant

seanb1 month ago0 in Home Automation
What a difference a year makes. Last weekend I attended the online Home Assistant conference, and it was incredible to see the support and listen to some amazing speakers talk about their home assistant setups.
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Fun with AppDaemon
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Fun with AppDaemon

seanb1 month ago0 in Home Automation
I’m making increasing use of AppDaemon with  Home Assistant, as I like the flexibility of using Python to structure my automations. I discussed it a couple of weeks ago and this time I’m going to work through another example…
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AppDaemon and when to use it
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AppDaemon and when to use it

seanb1 month ago1 in Home Automation
I’ve mentioned AppDaemon in passing and used it for my ZoneMinder camera automations, but what is it and why would you use it?
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Some Home Assistant growing pains
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Some Home Assistant growing pains

seanb4 months ago0 in Home Automation
A couple of recent releases of Home Assistant have had breaking changes that have affected me, and they’re a result of some growing pains…
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Sprucing up my Home Assistant
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Sprucing up my Home Assistant

seanb6 months ago0 in Home Automation
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?
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When is a person not a person?

seanb7 months 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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What watts?
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What watts?

seanb8 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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Stormy weather
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Stormy weather

seanb10 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
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Sending CCTV to the cloud

seanb11 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
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Linux to OneDrive via Synology

seanb11 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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