Battery powered smart home devices are great. Usually small and unobtrusive and usable everywhere without the need for wires. Unfortunately batteries run out of power at one point and quietly loosing an important sensor is not so great. Here is Read more…
Do you have water pipes, a washing machine or a dishwasher? Awesome perks of modern technology but also a risk. Flooding your house or apartment is neither cheap nor enjoyable. While there is no 100% way to avoid this possibility Read more…
No one likes cleaning, yet we have to do it all the time. Smart robot vacuums are a great way out of this misery. They works tirelessly, efficient and even while you are sleeping. Pretty much one of the best Read more…
Cleaning robots are one of the best categories of smart home devices. I was looking for a model with a great price to performance ratio and ended up buying the Roborock S50. It works great but it means one more Read more…
Do you like those films as much as I do where can just talk to their computer and it will do what they want it to? Think of Jarvis from the Iron Man movies. While we are not quite there Read more…
If you have read part 1 (otherwise you really should!) you now have nicely lit rooms, but this is about smart lights, right? What we are still missing are actual hardware controllers for the lights. The next step is to Read more…
Zigbee smart home devices are everywhere today. Zigbee2MQTT is a software that allows you to control them all. Many different brands are producing Zigbee devices today so you might very easily end up with a bunch of different gateways and Read more…
One of the easiest ways to use OpenHab is to install OpenHabian on a Raspberry Pi. Cheap, effective and quickly done. Now some time has passed and you want to update OpenHab(ian) to the newest version in a reliable way? Read more…
Are you looking to make the lights in your apartment a little smarter? You like the idea of having a smart light system but have no knowledge and/or time to deal with a complicated setup process? Here is how you Read more…
Are you looking for a cheap solution to control any wall powered device in your (smart) home? Or an LED strip? Or a lamp? Oh and you want total control over the device and all of that for cheap? That Read more…
