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Migrate Home Assistant to Argon One M.2 SSD

12th July 202121st December 2021 Martin 10 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, Raspberry Pi

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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Automated Dog Door
Automatic Pet Door Home Automation Projects 

Automatic Dog Door (Part 3) – Version 1.0 Complete

6th November 202023rd January 2021 Martin 0 Comments Automation, Home Assistant, Home Automation, Particle Photon, Stepper

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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Wall mounted multisensor and ultra sonic sensor for measuring salt level in water softener
Home Automation Projects 

Water Softener Salt Level Monitor (and more)

7th June 202014th March 2021 Martin 18 Comments Arduino, Home Assistant, Home Automation, Wemos

Living in a hard water area is a pain, so several years ago we had a water softener installed which

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Red White and Blue Bed Area with Guitar
Home Automation 

Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 3 – Installation)

6th February 2018 Martin 2 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, LED Lighting, WiFi LED

Installation of my multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting project is now complete. Taking the low cost approach has had some drawbacks,

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Home Automation 

Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 2b – WiFi LED Controller Selection)

5th February 201823rd January 2021 Martin 2 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, LED Lighting, WiFi LED

This post is a follow up from Part 1 of my series of posts covering the installation of a multi-zone

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Home Automation 

Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 1 – Planning)

17th December 201715th August 2019 Martin 0 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, LED Lighting, WiFi LED

I’m starting on a project to add WiFi Controlled LED perimeter strip lights to a bedroom. I thought I’d capture

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Home Automation 

Heterogeneous Home Automation with Home-Assistant

24th August 20172nd February 2020 Martin 0 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, LightwaveRF, Raspberry Pi, Z-Wave

The rate of change in internet connected devices continues to accelerate, with new devices, platforms and “things” appearing all the

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