Auf jeden Fall bei den ganzen Usern von Home Assistant, Openhab, FHEM und Co. Dann all deren Integrationen von Tado Produkten beruhen auf einer, meines Wissens nach inoffiziellen, API des Herstellers.| Björns Techblog
Please note: this post is a re-write of a previous post about my Vevor weather station that failed after a few months because of ineffective weather seals on the outdoor unit. Given the poor warranty service from Vevor, I instead went and bought a weather station from a local retailer. In my case a Jaycar […]| Made by Mikal
For the last couple of years, we've used a free-standing oil radiator to provide additional heat in our attic room. However, I've never been overly comfortable with the risk that it'll get knocked ove| www.bentasker.co.uk
A little while ago, I wrote some musings on Home Automation and made reference to our heating setup.As it's had a bit of time (and some poor weather) to run and be improved upon, I thought it might be| www.bentasker.co.uk
I've dabbled with elements of Home Automation in the past.In a previous rental, we only had storage heaters, so I equipped each room with an Oil Radiator and an energenie RF plug socket (like these ht| www.bentasker.co.uk
Zapis i transkrypcja dwugodzinnej gawędy o Smart Home - Informatyk Zakładowy dzieli się swoimi doświadczeniami z inteligentnym domem| Informatyk Zakładowy
One of my absolute favorite automations I have set up is the one that sends me a notification on workdays with an image displaying a Google Map with the traffic layer turned on. Thankfully I have several ways I can get from home to the office, but the main way along the interstate backs up very quickly if there’s an accident or other issue.\nI’ve been using Google Maps for a while, but this solution should work for any traffic map you can find that allows you to set the lat/long/zoom by U...| Random Musings
This is going to be a quick one, but I’m unreasonably excited about it. Lately I’ve noticed that image-based notifications haven’t been always going through via Telegram. Lots of errors in the logs about timed out connections, which I chalk up to the fact my internet is over a 5G router. It’s not bad, but it’s not always stable/reliable. I started to consider alternatives like Gotify (which I already use, except not for images) or even something Matrix.| Random Musings
EDIT 11/11/2023: Chamberlain has announced they’ve intentionally broken all third party integrations that don’t pay them, claiming they are preventing “unauthorized access.” As a result, HomeAssistant is going to be removing its MyQ integration in the 2023.12 release. Since this post, I’ve become aware of Ratgdo, which is an ESP based project which directly integrates with the garage opener and in effect emulates being a MyQ/Security 2.0 device. I bought one and have had it installe...| Random Musings
I realize in hindsight I didn’t post much in 2022. Well it’s 2023 now and I guess you could say I have a new year’s resolution to post more. But in reality, the reason why I didn’t post much last year was because I was moving. No, it didn’t take me all year to move. But we decided to build a new house after searching a bit and the whole build process took about 9 months start to finish.| Random Musings
This is an updated post to my previous one on BlueIris and Deepstack. The setup I described in that post worked for over two years. However, I am in the process of moving and was looking to streamline things. And also seeing if there was any way to improve my already functioning setup. Back 2 years ago I had searched and searched for a way to get alert images from BlueIris to HomeAssistant but couldn’t figured out a way.| Random Musings
I’m a big believer in both Zwave and Zigbee. Both have their pros and cons. Zwave in my opinion is a better technology because of the lack of interference and it propagates further/wider due to being a lower frequency. However, the devices are more expensive and there’s less overall variety. Zigbee on the other hand shares the same frequencies as Wifi (and other technologies) in the 2.4ghz band so interference can be an issue.| Random Musings
For a while I’ve been using a trio of Eufy 30C Robovacuums to clean my house. And they worked….fine. They were your standard bump-and-turn variety of vacuum robot, meaning no floor mapping/LIDAR or other advanced features. And like I said, they worked fine. Until they didn’t. I’ve already had to replace one under warranty and I had another die about 6 months after the warranty ended. I thought about replacing it with another Eufy but given that I’ve gone through two in less than two...| Random Musings
No, this is not and article on how to get your kids to want to create your home automations for you. Sorry. But I’ve been meaning for a long time to document some of the home automations things I do to make life easier with a baby/toddler. Hope you find these helpful and perhaps give you some ideas of your own! As inspiration, a popular baby item is the Hatch Baby Rest, which is a sound machine, night light, and time-to-rise/ok-to-wake clock all built into one.| Random Musings
Note: I don’t or recommend Eufy’s hardware anymore. I think Amcrest or Reolink are more compelling options that actually have working RTSP (even over WiFi) for just a bit more money. Also, if you still want to use Eufy, you don’t need to use ioBroker anymore. See this GitHub repo for more info. As I think should be obvious, I’m very big on HomeAssistant. It’s a great piece of software and does many many many things well.| Random Musings
NOTE: See revised post here. Below is being left for posterity, but is not longer what I would recommend. As I previously mentioned, I recently ditched my Wyze cams and moved over to Eufy cams for indoor. I also decided to buy some outdoor cams to mount and watch my front door and driveway in real time. However, I got tired of getting lots of false alerts due to trees/bushes moving in the wind, bugs flying by the camera at night, etc.| Random Musings
Ohhhh ESP8266. How I have grown to love thee. For a long time I was resistant to using them because I didn’t know how to solder and it just seemed to complicated to me. But I stumbled across a project (linked below) to create bed detection for super cheap and I was intrigued enough to give it shot. Being stuck at home thanks to COVID-19 also helped me want to find some projects to keep me busy.| Random Musings
Home Assistant Cast was announced about 9 months ago (August 2019) and it’s a very nifty concept if you have a Google/Nest Home Hub. Essentially it allows you to cast a Lovelace page to your Hub and you can use the touch screen to interact with the page, just like a tablet. There are a lot of possible use cases, from a security camera monitor to light/room controls and even media controls.| Random Musings
Well now that I’ve talked about what software I run my smart home on, what about the hardware? Let’s dig in. (Note: All links here do NOT contain any kind of affiliate link. They’re just direct links to the product) Thermostat I only have a single zone in my house so I went for an Ecobee 3. At the time I made my purchase, it was unique in that it had the ability to use remote sensors.| Random Musings
This winter, we've been using electricity to provide additional heating in the living room. This post looks at how our usage differed to the prior year where we relied on bottled gas for additional he| www.bentasker.co.uk