Custom WiFi enabled nightlight with ESPHome and Home Assistant
I built this custom night light for my kids as a fun little project. It’s pretty easy so thought someone else might be inspired to do something similar. Hardware The […]
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Defining home automation devices in YAML with ESPHome and Home Assistant, no programming required!
Having built the core of my own “dumb” smart home system, I have been working on making it smart these past few years. As I’ve written about previously, the smart […]
Read moreResolving mDNS across VLANs with Avahi on OpenWRT
mDNS, or multicast DNS, is a way to discover devices on your network at .local domain without any central DNS configuration (also known as ZeroConf and Bonjour, etc). Fedora Magazine […]
Read moreRunning a non-root container on Fedora with podman and systemd (Home Assistant example)
Similar to my post about running Home Assistant on Fedora in Docker, this is about using podman instead and integrating the container as a service with systemd. One of the […]
Read moreRunning Home Assistant on Fedora with Docker
Home Assistant is a really great, open source home automation platform written in Python which supports hundreds of components. They have a containerised version called Hass.io which can run on […]
Read moreBuilding and Booting Upstream Linux and U-Boot for Raspberry Pi 2/3 ARM Boards
My home automation setup will make use of Arduinos and also embedded Linux devices. I’m currently looking into a few boards to see if any meet my criteria. Previously I […]
Read moreBuilding and Booting Upstream Linux and U-Boot for Orange Pi One ARM Board (with Ethernet)
My home automation setup will make use of Arduinos and also embedded Linux devices. I’m currently looking into a few boards to see if any meet my criteria. The most […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 3, Roll Out
In Part 1 I discussed motivation and research where I decided to build a custom, open source wired solution. Part 2 discussed the prototype and other experiments. Because we were […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 2, Design and Prototype
Update: See Part 3. In Part 1 I discussed motivation and research where I decided to build a custom, open source wired solution. In this Part 2 I discuss the […]
Read moreMy Custom Open Source Home Automation Project – Part 1, Motivation and Research
Update: See Part 2 and Part 3. In January 2016 I gave a presentation at the Canberra Linux Users Group about my journey developing my own Open Source home automation […]
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