Category: Smart Home

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Plex & Locast: Recording Local TV Without the Antenna

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Update: Locast has ceased operations. Old post archived here: I have been a long time Plex user for years. Alongside my extensive movie collection, I also …

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Plexamp Music Streaming with Raspberry Pi Zero

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I’ve been a Plex user for a very long while. They’ve recently put a lot of effort into the re-vamped Plexamp music player and it’s quickly …

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Self Hosting: Nextcloud with DigitalOcean Spaces for Main Storage

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It has been over a year since I originally set up my own self-hosted cloud using Nextcloud. I am happy to report back that I absolutely …

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My Node-Red Smart Alarm Clock with Snooze

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Definitely one of my very favorite features of my smart house is my alarm clock. Which is funny because I am not a morning person at all and …

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Automating Dumb Devices with Node-Red and Home Assistant

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Here in coastal California, air conditioning is extremely uncommon. So during a recent heat wave, I got desperate and went down to the big box store …

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Installing Volumio in a Proxmox Virtual Machine

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Volumio is a really cool open source audio player project, meant for high quality playback and easy use with cheap devices. Basically, a plug-and-play network music …

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Self Hosting: Complete Guide to Deploying Your Own Private NextCloud with Docker Compose

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With all the revelations in the headlines about how exactly our private data is being mined to surveil and manipulate us, I’ve been thinking of more …

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Pi to NUC Part 1: Migrating Hass.IO to a Virtual Machine with Proxmox & Docker

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As my Home Assistant setup has become increasingly complex, I’ve started to see the limitations of the Raspberry Pi platform. Graphs are slow, and the history …

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The Cheapest WiFi Smart Switch: Flashing the Sonoff Basic

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Setting up a smart home can be a costly affair, if every device needed an expensive proprietary smart switch you would spend quite a bit of …

Home AssistantNode-RedSmart Home

Location Aware Notification Lights with Node-Red and IFTTT

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I am in the habit of going on cooking sprees while listening to music… loudly. I only share one wall with a neighbor here in the …