A year in Home Assistant
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.
AppDaemon and when to use it
I’ve mentioned AppDaemon in passing and used it for my ZoneMinder camera automations, but what is it and why would you use it?
Staying in the know
Notifications are an important part of any home automation setup. There’s no point in having sensors and cameras monitoring your home while you’re out if there’s no way of being alerted when something happens…
The Home Assistant Android app
There is an official Home Assistant app for Android, and I’ve been trying it out…
If this… then what?
IFTTT – If This Then That – has angered users by switching to a subscription model, but they’re not the first to go down that route and I’m sure they won’t be the last…
What watts?
I’m so bored in lockdown that I’ve been using a smart plug to measure power draw from various devices…
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…
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?
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…