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…
Posts tagged "Programming"
The benefit of open source
I upgraded Home Assistant to v0.62 at the weekend and my 433MHz switches stopped working…
FizzBuzz!
Last week I saw an interesting video by Tom Scott about FizzBuzz and it made me have a think about programming…
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…
Too many options
I’ve written previously that I think there are too many programming languages. I’ll expand that. There’s too much technology…
Summer’s here
Summer’s here – and I can prove it, thanks to my SmartThings integrations with InfluxDB and Grafana…
Putting it all together
I’ve written a number of posts about my project to take temperature readings from Samsung SmartThings sensors…
Displaying the Django data
The project to record and view temperature readings from Samsung SmartThings is almost done…
Django and Object Relational Mapping
The next step in my home automation project is to build the front end to view the data, and for that I’m going to use a web application framework…
First SmartThings SmartApp, part I
Step one of my automation project is to get data out of my SmartThings system and into my home server…