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…
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…
Rebuilding my home server
Have you ever had the urge to reinstall a machine from scratch? Maybe you’ve found a better way to do something and feel a clean install would be a good idea?
Logitech’s Christmas Story
A very seasonal story has unfolded in the home automation community, with Logitech playing the part of Scrooge…
A quick Sonos automation
Now that I’ve got multiple Sonos speakers, I want to make the most of them by looking at some simple automations…
A lesson in poor API design
Now that I’m into home automation one of my requirements when buying a new device for home is how well it will fit into my setup…