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Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 7

By davek0974 | 20/01/2021 - 6:25 pm |20/01/2021 Smart Home Fun, Uncategorized
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Some success today with Node Red – this is the visual control building software for Home Assistant. Since starting I have been struggling to discover a way to tell if a Sky-Q box is turned on or off – “why do i care?” you might ask. Well, I use the … Continue reading… →

Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 6

By davek0974 | 19/01/2021 - 2:54 pm |19/01/2021 Smart Home Fun
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Things were running well since the upgrades, it was pretty stable and doing what it should. Time to move the Raspberry Pi off the coffee table where it had been sitting 🙂 I shut it down, moved it a little to somewhere not so obvious and re-started it. It all … Continue reading… →

Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 5

By davek0974 | 17/01/2021 - 12:05 pm |19/01/2021 Smart Home Fun
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We have a panel heater in an outbuilding, it’s a garden games room so we keep the frost off and turn it up when we want to use the room. I fitted a so-called ‘smart heater’ which has remote control of its settings via Alexa etc but it used a … Continue reading… →

Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 4

By davek0974 | 12/01/2021 - 4:07 pm |19/01/2021 Smart Home Fun
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So I now had a jumbo Raspberry Pi, I still had to re-install the software and restore the programming flows and data to the new SSD. It took a few YouTube videos to do this, it involves some pretty Geeky commands being sent to the Pi in order to get … Continue reading… →

Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 3

By davek0974 | 12/01/2021 - 3:44 pm |12/01/2021 Smart Home Fun
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Home Assistant had been running ok for a while, the learning was progressing and I now had several “Flows” configured – these are groups of sequences placed together to make things easier to find later – you could have flows for say Living Room, Kitchen, Outside etc and put sequences … Continue reading… →

Home Automation – Fun With The House Part 2

By davek0974 | 11/01/2021 - 4:53 pm |12/01/2021 Smart Home Fun
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After a year it was all still working, mostly, we had some issues with a few bulbs behaving badly – the would switch on randomly, usually at night, not often but probably once a month. It seems this can be pretty normal for some of these devices and well known. … Continue reading… →

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