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 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…
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…
**Please note – this is not a ‘how to’ guide, just a bunch of notes and tales of the fun i have had getting stuff working 🙂 Home automation: other names include Smart Homes, Smart Devices etc, sounds like fun so I dived in about a year ago. There are … Continue reading…