If you are into smart home technology or just generally like to build things yourself you won’t get around collecting a couple of lab devices. But devices like a lab bench power supply can be very costly and take up too much space to justify for a beginner, right? No! Read more…
I have already written about how you can add Alexa support for OpenHab. If for some reason this is not possible (I had problems with this setup in a Docker container) or you are using another smart home system: here is another way I found to add Alexa support. And Read more…
Zigbee2MQTT is an awesome software to add support for all kinds of devices to your smart home controller. Setting up Zigbee2MQTT is pretty easy as I described in my earlier post but there are still a lot of questions I see about Zigbee2MQTT. In this article I will try to Read more…
You want to see everything going on in your smart home at one glance? Then you need a smart home dashboard!Smart home control systems like OpenHab and HomeAssistant usually offer nice ways to display important data about your smart home. What they do less well is display data over time Read more…
You are looking to create scenes in OpenHab and don’t know how? Well you are not the only one! While OpenHab is a pretty awesome home automation platform the concept of scenes is just not properly supported. Most solutions are overly complicated but here is a simply solution for simple 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 yet simple voice control with devices like the Amazon Echo 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 add some hardware to be able to actually control those Read more…
Zigbee smart home devices are everywhere today. Many different brands are producing them so you might very easily end up with a bunch of different gateways and Apps to control them. And nothing working without an Internet connection. You don’t like that? Me neither! Here is how you can control 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 can build a super simple automatic lighting setup for cheap 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 is actually quite possible and I will show you how Read more…