I finally had enough with the Behmor Coffee Maker. With firmware updates causing problems, the coffee marker making eight cups, sometime the coffee maker not working and unpairing from my iPad, I have finally had enough. I purchased a normal, non-internet connected coffee maker. I guess some things are not meant for automation yet.
The internet connected coffee pot had a good run.
Over the last few weeks, I have switching some of the lights in the house to Philips Hue. It started because my eyes were hurting now that I am working from home all day. My office is on the lower level family room. It has eight ceiling lights and depending on the light coming in,…
Her new name is “She who must not be named”. Whenever I talk about Alexa, she decides to chime in. And I have learned, when watching YouTube videos about Alexa, make sure you turn off the michophone. I have started to integrate her with my home automation system. She have become vastly more interesting and…
The Echo was different. It was weird asking questions and getting answers from a cylinder. Added a bunch of skills; animal noises, Jeopardy, news. This will take some getting use to.
Tried Home Assistant again. I may have figured out automation finally. I wanted to create a button in the UI and have it turn off some of my devices. I use this at night when I go to bed. I am not happy with creating an input boolean but it seems to work. I am…
Did I go one step too far? I just purchased a coffee maker because I could control it from my iPhone/iPad. It is suppose to be a great coffee maker (Behmor Connected Customizable Temperature Control Coffee Maker). It makes the best coffee I have had in a long time. But syncing it with my iPad…
I wonder if I am taking this too far. I ordered the Echo Spot to be my clock on the nightstand. I will know in December when it comes out if this works.