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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,…
Everybody in the beginning of the year seem to review their budgets and I am no exception. I actually started in Nov. when Hulu live announced it was going to raise its prices. I decided that they raised their price enough over the last few years that I was going to drop Hulu Live but…
Started looking into Solar again. With home automation I am hoping to reduce my electric usage and see if I could get the cost of the solar panels and the Tesla Powerwalls to be less than the cost of my currently monthly electric bill. I would also like to reduce the cost of propane generator….
Home Assistant kept telling me about my printers so I decided to look into it. It is pretty cool I could make a page that shows printer status and ink levels. I wish I could get a gauge card that had three gauges on a card but I am starting to get the hang of…
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 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…
I lost internet for a few hours yesterday and learned something very interesting. I could not access my local Ubiquiti dashboard when I didn’t have internet access even though everything was local. I will need to research this
All day I was working on the integration of a z-wave motion detector and Home Assistant. I finally found in various forums that there were some issues and I had to manually change some configuration files. I eventually got it to work but then when I tried to do some automation, it was just too…
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