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The ultimate automatic smart light system with Home Assistant

I built my ultimate automatic smart light system and this is how you can do the same. You want lights that turn on and off automatically and always dimm to the right level? Lights that even change color (adaptive lighting/true tone/flux…) all on their own? It is possible with some Read more…

By Oliver, 2 days2 days ago
Furniture

Building a unique custom ceiling lamp from wood -with smart filament LEDs

When I moved into my current apartment I wanted to built a custom ceiling lamp for my living room. The ingredients were clear: wood and filament LEDs hanging from the ceiling. With only a couple of hours of work I built this DIY lamp in a unique design. This is Read more…

By Oliver, 1 month1 month ago
Furniture

5 effective ways of hiding cables for a smart home

You want speakers, you want Ethernet, you want nice lighting! Good options for hiding cables are very limited. Especially when you are moving into a rented apartment and are unable to open the walls. Here are some good ways of hiding your cables for a cleaner look. A lot of Read more…

By Oliver, 6 months ago
Automation

The best and cheapest motion sensors for your smart home?

Automatic lights are magical. You walk into a room and the lights just turn on… to add this magic to your smart home you need motion sensors. Many motion sensors. Here is everything you need to know about them and my experience on how to find and install cheap and Read more…

By Oliver, 7 months ago
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Brighten up your day! How to automate your DIY smart lighting system – part 3

You built your own smart lighting system? But it really is not smart yet. Lets add some smartness to the system. You don’t want to be pressing buttons all the time anymore, right? Here are some ways to make you light setup smart(er). Rules in Openhab I am controlling my Read more…

By Oliver, 8 months8 months ago
Furniture

Beautiful DIY headphone holder with illumination

To efficiently store and display headphones a wall-mounted headphone holder is perfect. When I recently upgraded to a nice pair of headphones I realized I need one too. I liked none that I could find online so I decided to build a DIY version myself. While we are at it Read more…

By Oliver, 8 months7 months ago
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WLED custom animations – Making the DIY smart wardrobe even more awesome

A simple DIY smart wardrobe with lights that turn on and off automatically is awesome. Using the digital LEDs to their full potential and adding WLED custom animations is even better. This is how I upgraded my wardrobe lights. The smart wardrobe lights In an earlier article I described how Read more…

By Oliver, 9 months9 months ago
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Affordable DIY smart wardrobe lights for less than 40€

A simple way to add some awesomeness to your wardrobe is to add lighting. Smart wardrobe lights look great and help find things more quickly. I build a cheap do-it-yourself solution which has some great effects not found in off the shelf solutions. All of this is done for around Read more…

By Oliver, 10 months2 days ago
smart light

How you can add affordable smart switches anywhere in your smart home

One of the main problems with smart homes is how to improve usability by allowing control via “legacy” switches instead of relying on Apps and voice assistants. One great way of doing this is by adding smart relays to your existing wall switches and keep using them. For any case Read more…

By Oliver, 10 months7 months ago
smart light system hardware
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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, 11 months7 months ago

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