Voice assistants…. We’ve all heard of them, they come in different flavours – Alexa, Google, Siri etc. They are pretty useful things most of the time, like all tech they can have issues but are generally fairly reliable and successful at voice recognition. They all have one thing at least … Continue reading…
In between messing with the home automation, I dabble with ham radio as a licensed operator, my callsign is 2E0FWL, its a fun past-time. I had not been on-air for a good while as i was busy with the decorating and stuff, I turned the radio on last week for … Continue reading…
Things are working pretty well, I have added more motion sensors to control lights where possible, I have also added remote control blind ‘pullers’ to the blinds in the living and dining rooms – having these close and open based on daylight and time is a massive smart-home boost. The … Continue reading…
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…