Ok, Here goes some much needed TLC on the GUI as this is what it current looks like: Way too much going on in a single page along with some things that aren’t super useful. My main goal here is to end up with a few useful pages for specific purposes along with a useful […]
While writing my last 2 posts, an update came out for HA. There don’t appear to have been any breaking changes, so I’m going forward with the update and hoping it will be a painless experience. If so, there shouldn’t be much to this post at all, let’s find out! According to the Hassbian common […]
On top of the automations and voice control in the last post, I also want some pre-defined light settings. Home Assistant has scenes for this. Right now I have 3 in mind: Reading light in the bedroom overhead light off the two lamps on at 25% brightness and turned to a warm light Night Time […]
Automations While working on the GUI cleanup, I got side tracked and ended up playing with some automations. Specifically, I made some automations for the Ikea Tradfri lights that live in the two bedside lamps in my bedroom. The final implementation resulted in being able to set different scenes via voice control with the help […]
Z-Wave Configuration The first step to transitioning to my new HA instance is to configure Z-Wave for my smart switches. My Z-Wave network consists of the following Aeotec Z-Stick (Gen 5) 3 Homeseer WS100+ Switches 1 Homeseer WA100PLUS Addon Switch (used with the above for a 3-way switch setup) The Z-Stick is already paired to the […]
As I mentioned previously, I have Home Assistant already setup and working, but it’s horribly out of date (0.39.1). Rather than mess with trying to update it to the latest via an update, I’m going to start fresh on a different Pi3. that way I can get everything set up how I want, and then […]
Continuing from the “Getting Started” post that didn’t really get to anything exciting, we’re going to play with the REPL and blink a light! Getting to the REPL On linux, you can install a program called Picocom that will get you the REPL over the serial port. sudo apt-get install picocom To use it call […]
Looking to use some of these little boards within my home automation system running on Home Assistant. I’ll have some more posts on that later as I upgrade my current setup from 0.39.0 to something more recent (0.58.1 ATM). I’ll be doing most of these from my Linux laptop, but occasionally I might work from […]