Amazon Echo Spot
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.
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.
Over the last few months I have gone a bit overboard. I bought two more Amazon Echos as well as an Echo Dot. I am getting use to talking to my house. Occasionally I also use it as a bluetooth speaker. Not the best sound but it will do.
I had Indigo Home Automation for years but my Insteon Controller would keep dying and need to be replaced with frequent blackouts. I decided to switch to HomeSeer awhile ago, first to their Windows implementation and then to HomeTroller. I never fully was able to move everything over. Recently I tried to add a Wave…
I slowly am dipping my toes back in the water and Home Assistant is starting to grow on me. I have a few components and I am seeing that I need to come up with naming standards. The naming standards will help me with the Alexa commands and will also make using the automation tools…
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…
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…