Automating with HomeAssistant
Now that I’ve got my most of my devices into HomeAssistant, it’s time to get the most out of it by using automations…
Netatmo review – Part I
So I now have a Netatmo thermostat and it’s been working for about a week. This is a two part review and today I’m looking at initial installation and setup…
Choosing a smart thermostat
The last major element in my smart home setup is a smart thermostat. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but I’ve been struggling to decide which one to get…
Home Assistant Review
Well that was good timing – events this week have made this review suddenly topical. The recent issues with Amazon Web Services have highlighted the danger of relying on cloud services…
Revisiting InfluxDB
When I put together a Zato service to take temperature values from SmartThings and record them in InfluxDB I considered a new outgoing connection type…
Thoughts on Alexa
Over Christmas I got myself an Amazon Echo Dot, just to have a play with voice assistants at home…
A quick intro to Zoneminder
Following on from the last post, I’m going to talk about how Zoneminder works and why it struggles a bit with high resolution modern security cameras…
Security Cameras
I talked about the Arlo security camera system in my last post, and so far I think it’s a good system for what it does…
Exposing yourself to the internet
So, I’ve now got a bunch of things running on my home server and I want to access them when I’m out and about…
Summer’s here
Summer’s here – and I can prove it, thanks to my SmartThings integrations with InfluxDB and Grafana…