Air quality is quite important for health reasons and just to make your home more enjoyable. When I found the new Starkvind air purifier from IKEA I decided to test it with ZHA and my Home Assistant instance. Air quiet, relatively cheap air purifier with build in Zigbee sounds great Read more…
With smart light bulbs pretty much any existing ceiling lamp can become a smart ceiling lamp in minutes. Here is how to make a ceiling lamp smart – standalone or as part of a bigger smart light system with Home Assistant and Hue bulbs. Smart light system A single smart Read more…
Finding a great integrated blind control solution for a DIY smart home is hard. The IKEA Fyrtur and Kadrijl blinds are cheap compared to established producers and work better than most full DIY solutions. I bought one and tested it with my Home Assistant setup. The Fyrtur smart blinds The 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…
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…
I spent the last couple of years on my personal “perfect” smart home setup, or at least on my journey to get ever closer to that. Of course over time technology and the smart home market are changing, but these are some general lessons I learned – and that you Read more…