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How to make a ceiling lamp smart – adding to your Home Assistant smart light system

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…

By Oliver, 1 year ago
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IKEA Fyrtur – a great DIY solution for smart blinds?

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…

By Oliver, 2 years22.03.2021 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, 3 years16.05.2020 ago
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Tradfri – The easiest smart light system for beginners with just 2 cheap devices

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…

By Oliver, 3 years05.05.2020 ago
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Basics

6 Lessons I learned on my journey to the perfect smart home setup

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…

By Oliver, 3 years16.03.2020 ago
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