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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 years21.09.2020 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
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, 5 years07.07.2020 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, 5 years21.06.2020 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, 5 years10.06.2020 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, 5 years03.06.2020 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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