Tag: home automation
My Node-Red Smart Alarm Clock with Snooze
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 …
Pi to NUC Part 1: Migrating Hass.IO to a Virtual Machine with Proxmox & Docker
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 …
The Cheapest WiFi Smart Switch: Flashing the Sonoff Basic
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 …
Location Aware Notification Lights with Node-Red and IFTTT
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 …
Setting Up Let’s Encrypt with Node-Red & Home Assistant
Privacy is important in the smart home, and one of the primary reasons to use Home Assistant is because it is totally under control of the …
More Nodes for Home Automation: state-machine, actionflows, dashboard, statistics
I’m keeping a running list of useful nodes I’ve found for home automation. Here’s a couple of more I came across recently in the Node-Red library. …
Going Further with Home Automations in Node-Red
In my last post about using Node-Red to make automations with Home Assistant, I showed some very simple flows for turning lights on and off. While it …
Useful Sensor: Cardinal Wind Direction for Home Assistant
As someone who cycles to work most days, I keep a pretty close eye on the weather. One thing I like to know is which way …
Home Assistant: Making My Plants Talk with IoT Sensors and a Python Script
Living in an urban city without a garden, I have been exercising my green thumb by accumulating more and more houseplants. I have them tucked away …
Useful Sensor: Motion Last Seen & Meta Motion Sensor
You know what’s great about motion sensors? They are very, very cheap to build yourself. All it takes is an esp8266 module like the Wemos …