Back to school safety tips for Georgia families. Protect your home with smart locks, video doorbells, and alerts this school year.| EMC Security
When people ask me about my Smart Home, they often expect something high-tech. Instead, they find an ordinary house that just happens to be observable, controllable, and a little more convenient. The trick? A hidden layer that I can build, break, and rebuild however I want. What’s the smart home I don’t really like the term “Smart Home”. I’m not sure the official definition even exists, but most of the ones I’ve found mention “remote control”, “internet connection”, and ...| Szymon Krajewski
Photo by picjumbo.com on Pexels.com My wife and I have just moved into our new-old home. We have spent almost a year restoring and reinvigorating a mid-century ranch that will deliver a more carefr…| Lighting by Jeffrey
In my home, I have a mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery powered by Stiebel Eltron V-400. Basically, it’s a large fan with air inflows and outflows ducts. Besides some built-in automation, it’s a pretty dumb device. Without a dedicated gateway (which costs extra money), I can only control it or see its current parameters on the controller, either on the unit or in the hall. I thought it would be nice to collect some data from this device, both for some kind of analysis and ou...| Szymon Krajewski
A friend of mine turned me on to Home Assistant which is a wonderful open source home automation platform. It's privacy forward (a hard requirement for me) and ...| Roborooter.com
Turns out there's a pretty easy solution to having to power a million different hubs that all have USB connections| Skylar MacDonald