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…
I started my initial network upgrade by upgrading parts of the wired infrastructure. My whole house is wired with ethernet and there are multiple routers/switches throughout the house and in some cases, multiple ones in the same room. Part of the goal is clear all of that up. The network connection is a mess with…
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…
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I am on a cruise this week and I am practicing with the GoPro Fusion. I took some photos yesterday to create a Virtual Tour of the cabin I am in. While I assemble the virtual tour, I want to publish a tiny planet view of St. Thomas from my balcony.