I am not sure if you are aware of Home Assistant, but it’s a neat way for me to do some tinkering in my home and wire it all together using Node-Red to save me some coding and get some neat flows set up. And you can do the same with quite little effort and start out with […]
Tag: Smart Home
Smart Tinkering – Part II
Guess after the echo of that post about smart home stuff, I guess I have to deliver another shot: This time it’s a bit more practical. Speaking of a Raspberry Pi II being used to emitting noises every now and then by playing MP3 files which got some API open to be (ab)used. Last post was about presence […]
Smart tinkering
I’m thinking of some ways to work on my home in terms of making it some kind of smart. But smart in terms of having ‘some’ information instead of being married to information gathering services. Thinking of presence detection I’d vote against geofencing as this system does not need to know my location. Movement sensors lack the possibility […]