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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, 5 months ago
smart light

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, 6 months6 months 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 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…

By Oliver, 7 months3 months ago
smart light

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, 8 months5 months 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, 8 months5 months ago
Openhab

Infinite energy – How to add a battery level warning to all your sensors

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 how to build a battery level warning system to avoid Read more…

By Oliver, 9 months9 months ago
Automation

Water leak sensor – how to build a reliable warning system against water damages for less than 20$

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 an early warning system with a water leak sensor will Read more…

By Oliver, 9 months5 months 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, 10 months1 month ago
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