Recent Posts
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Tackle Tracking Water Usage
Data driven decision making is how I prefer to approach my smart home. A few years ago, I started the journey of tracking my electric and gas utilities. Water tracking eluded me. With our meager household consumption, it never made sense to tackle...
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Instantaneous Mail Notifications
We have an unpredictable mail schedule and I’m an impatient child. I’m convinced that when the post office knows they’re delivering a box of parts, they shuffle our route for a late-night delivery. Rather than hawking around the mailbox or listeni...
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Surfacing Scenes to All Google Home Household Members
Google Home supports the concept activating scenes to simplify common room configurations. This trait allows users to group devices under the same service and update them simultaneously. It’s very similar to the routines control inside Google Home...
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Transforming an Old Doorbell with Smart Alerts
For the last year I’ve been retrofitting tech into our home. Our house is the epitome of luxury featuring a ragged carpeted wall to promote sound deadening. Due to this ingenious addition, it’s difficult to hear things like the doorbell while we’r...
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Affordable Leak Detection and Temperature Monitoring in Home Assistant
Home automation should be open, affordable, and functional. I think it’s silly for devices to stop functioning if there’s a regional AWS outage or the internet goes out. As I was looking into energy monitoring solutions for my house, I stumbled up...