Home Assistant
Smart Doorbell for Cats with Home Assitant
Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara
Home Automation
Home Automation My personal choice is the smart home hub which protects your data, does not rely on the cloud, and enables you to connect several smart home devices and ecosystems. Home Assistant is the way to go here. Most things will be made with Home Assistant because I care about privacy and local data instead of using some cloud service. Sometimes cloud services are necessary and will be used as well when the benefit is good enough.
PokyPow
PokyPow Updates and Tasmota
We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.
Home Assistant
An Emergency Stop Button with ZigBee and Home Assistant
How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant
PokyPow
pc-switch renamed to PokyPow and other small updates
Hey nerds 👋 🚨The PokyPow prelaunch page is live! Sign up there for stock updates at Crowdsupply. I am working with Crowdsupply on a couple of things, including the campaign's landing page. I hope I can make it public soon. Send them some prototypes and they took very nice
Home Automation
Free your robot vacuum from the cloud
How to use the robot vacuum without a cloud and integrate it with Home Assistant. With that, some pros and cons of a used older robot vacuum.
Home Automation
"Smart" Blumat Water Container with Home Assistant
Automatically water plants with physics and a simple water container thanks to the Blumat system. Additionally, detect if the water container is empty with Home Assistant and get notified.
Home Automation
Make your old doorbell smart with Home Assistant and ESPHome
Make your old doorbell smart with Home Assistant and ESPHome
PokyPow
My first electronic hardware: a remote pc-switch for Home Assistant
🚨The PokyPow prelaunch page is live! Sign up there for stock updates at Crowdsupply. A friend recently asked me, if I know a smart home switch that runs 5V and it is pretty small. His use case was to turn on/off his HTPC in the living room. This was
Home Automation
Measuring Air Quality in your Home Office
Measure Air Quality in your Home Office with Home Assistant
Home Automation
Rain Warning Sensor with Home Assistant
Disclaimer: This is only useful for people living in Germany. But you might get inspiration from this post to build this yourself. Let's go. So the other day I stumbled across a competition from the German Make magazine about automation and found a guy who did build a
Home Automation
Smart bed heater update
Smart bed heater update with integrated timer function in ESPHome.
Home Automation
Winter is coming - Build your own "smart" bed warmer
How to build a smart bed warmer with Home Assistant.