Picking a smart lock: There are a fair number of smart lock options out there, and unfortunately not a lot of them are well reviewed. I was on the fence for a long time trying to decide which system to try out. I ultimately ended up with the August Pro smart lock for a few […]
Well, it’s been 3 months without any posts. I bought an August Pro smart lock and started a post about integrating it with home assistant. It started off alright and then went off the rails and I lost all momentum. So now, 3 months and 6 HA updates later I suspect if I update HA […]
The last post ended with me setting up a z-wave switch with the intention of using it to control the power of my 3D printer, so that’s what I’ll cover here. I’ll also set up another Pi with Octoprint so that I can send gcode to the printer remotely. Home Assistant – Z-wave Switch with […]
I bought this switch from Monoprice with the intention of using it with my 3D printer. Partly so that I can turn it off and on remotely, but also so that I can see how much energy it uses. It is easy enough to set up, follow the inclusion mode instructions here and plug the z-wave […]
Another few weeks have gone by and a few more updates have come out. Right now I’m sitting at version 0.59.1 and version 0.60.0 is out, so let’s give it a go: sudo hassbian-config upgrade home-assistant After a few minutes the HA interface comes back online. Check out the about page to confirm the update […]
The motivation behind this was to recreate a feature of Melissa’s aunts security system. Mel always liked that the doors in her aunts house all triggered a chime to play in the house when they were opened. This is a small feature of their alarm system and should be fairly easy to re-create with Home […]
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 […]