Got the dining room completely finished now. Carpet will be replaced as soon as living room is done. Living room plastered, mist-coat of emulsion applied and dado rail fitted. When coating new plaster never use PVA as a sealer/primer, emulsion will not stick to PVA and will just peel off, … Continue reading…
Plasterer did a fantastic job, the walls are as smooth as glass now. The drop ceiling is finished and the whole ceiling painted. Just waiting on some connectors so the LED uplight strips can be fitted, tests were made with a small length of LED strip to get the position … Continue reading…
Having got the smart home control stable and happy, we decided it was a good time to decorate the dining and living rooms – two of my most hated decorating jobs because you cannot escape the mess like you can when doing a bedroom etc. The dining room was first, … Continue reading…
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…
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…
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…