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,…
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…
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 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 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 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…
Cool is starting to kick in. I can talk to my home automation and my home entertainment. I am truly getting to be a high tech house.
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…
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…