Recent Posts
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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...
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Fixing the Google Assistant on My Android Work Profile
One of the products I develop for at work is a digital assistant for food service operations. Our voice component of the digital assistant is deployed to Google Assistant compatible devices through Actions on Google. To aid in my work I use a pers...
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Electric Dryer Monitoring with a CT Clamp
In July I wrote about a project on how I monitored my washer and dryer cycles. My washer used an ESP32 smart plug while my dryer had an ESP32 board and vibration sensor adhered to the outside paneling. At the time, I believed the shortcomings of a...
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Using Vibrations and Power to Notify When My Washing Machine and Dryer Finish
My washing machine and dryer do not have an audible notification upon completion. When they finish they go silent 🔇. Because I live in a small space, I usually shut the door to the laundry room to reduce noise leakage in the main living area. On m...