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Openhab

How to add a new Item to OpenHab – a simple 5 minute guide

This is a very quick guide on what an “Item” is in and how to add a new Item to OpenHab 2. All the information you will need to get started in as few sentences as possible. If you are new to OpenHab: welcome! It is an awesome open source Read more…

By Oliver, 5 years ago
Openhab

How to add a new Thing to OpenHab – a simple 5 minute guide

This is a very quick guide on what a “Thing” is in and how to add a new Thing to OpenHab 2. All the information you will need to get started in as few sentences as possible. If you are new to OpenHab: welcome! It is an awesome open source Read more…

By Oliver, 5 years01.11.2020 ago
Furniture

A DIY electronics lab for beginners – cheap but powerful

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…

By Oliver, 5 years ago
Basics

Absolutely simple way to add Alexa support to more than 20 smart home systems – with HA bridge

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…

By Oliver, 5 years ago
Basics

Handy Tips & Tricks for Zigbee2MQTT

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…

By Oliver, 5 years03.08.2020 ago
Basics

Beautiful smart home dashboards with Grafana

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 Home Assistant usually offer nice ways to display important data about your smart home. What they do less well is display data over Read more…

By Oliver, 5 years20.07.2020 ago
Openhab

Scenes in OpenHab – an astonishingly simple way to create scenes

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…

By Oliver, 5 years23.06.2020 ago
Basics

Magically control (nearly) everything – how to effortlessly add voice control with Alexa and OpenHab

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…

By Oliver, 5 years21.05.2020 ago
smart light system hardware
smart light

Brighten up your day! How to build an affordable and reliable smart light system – part 2

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…

By Oliver, 5 years16.05.2020 ago
Openhab

Zigbee2MQTT – An easy guide on how to have all your Zigbee devices under your full control

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 Apps to control them. And nothing working without an Internet Read more…

By Oliver, 5 years11.05.2020 ago

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