Sonos Door and Window Alerts from Home Assistant
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Using Zigbee door and window sensors to trigger alerts in Home Assistant to our tablets, phones and Sonos smart speakers.
From prototype to production - home automation that actually works.
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Using Zigbee door and window sensors to trigger alerts in Home Assistant to our tablets, phones and Sonos smart speakers.
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Modifying a Kasa Smart Plug by TP-Link Power to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage
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Everyone needs some fibre in their diet and we have added more to the home network using 10Gb Fibre to connect our computers and Synology network storage devices via a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN network switch
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Teardown of an Amazon Echo Flex smart plug which listens to your commands via the Alexa service and replies using a very tiny speaker
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Teardown of the Amazon Echo Input and trying to extract the firmware
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Digging deeper into the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation smart speaker
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Teardown of the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation Smart speaker
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Adding a 1-Wire Interface to our Solar Hot Water Controller to allow it to talk to our home server and data logger
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Using Mosquitto MQTT and Home Assistant Data to log sensor data for our home using different types of wired and wireless sensors
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Upgrade time for our home Linux server with a new low-power Gigabit Internet Gateway Network PC
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Controlling a TP-Link LB130 Smart Wi-Fi LED Bulb using Python on a Raspberry Pi.
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A big upgrade to our home network with a new 48 port switch and patch panel
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Modifying a reed switch-based gas meter sensor to use a hall effect sensor to allow us to record gas usage
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Building a custom ESP8266-based Wi-Fi mains electric and gas monitoring system