Gas Meter Usage Sensor Using Zigbee Door Sensor
Since Home Assistant launched the Energy Management dashboard, I wanted to find a way to add my Gas usage to
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Home Automation
Solar Generation Monitoring with Home Assistant
Back in ?? we had Solar Panels installed for free on our roof by A Shade Greener, free as they
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Migrate Home Assistant to Argon One M.2 SSD
Now that my previous issues with the Argon ONE M.2 case have been resolved, I’m able to finally put the
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Automatic Dog Door (Part 3) – Version 1.0 Complete
This post is the final part of a series from initial idea and prototype automated dog/pet door I described in Part
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Water Softener Salt Level Monitor (and more)
Living in a hard water area is a pain, so several years ago we had a water softener installed which
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Automatic Dog Door (Part 2c) – Software Problems
This post is part of a series looking at the challenges faced when taking my initial idea and prototype I
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Automatic Dog Door (Part 2b) – Electrical Problems
This post is part of a series looking at the challenges faced when taking my initial idea and prototype automated
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Automatic Dog Door (Part 2a) – Mechanical Problems
In Part 1, I talked about my plan for creating an Automatic Dog Door, or more accurately a Pet Door,
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Automatic Dog Door (Part 1)
“And now for something completely different“, I’ve been covering the Raspberry Pi 4 and it’s associated accessories since it launched
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Node-RED Support for Pimoroni Automation-HAT/pHAT
I’ve recently been looking at how to simplify how non-programmers can start to create home automation solutions and stumbled across
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