My first foray into home automation was playing with a Google Home unit I found amongst a whole bunch of disused junk I was tidying up for a relative. It had never been used so I plugged it in, downloaded the app and had lots of fun asking about the weather, getting it to tell …
Various pages come up in my feed that look like they might be interesting. These are ones that have caught my eye but I haven’t taken the time to look at them properly. https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/internet-of-things/the-10-coolest-iot-startups-of-2020 https://opensource.com/article/20/11/wireless-protocol-home-automation https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/internet-of-things/the-10-coolest-iot-startups-of-2020
Personally, I don’t recommend building Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi as you’ll almost certainly outgrow it and need to invest in something beefier. That said, Raspberry Pi’s are progressively getting more powerful and now that you can use a USB drive rather than an SD card, you can avoid lots of problems down the …
A path to Home Assistant There’s a wealth of information out there of topics related to home automation, IoT and things related. Some of it is even useful and interesting. As I stumble across such things I’d like to include links to make thing accessible to others. I’m at the beginning of my WordPress learning …
There’s lots of stuff to talk about. Here’s my initial list of things that might be worth covering. I’m including it here as a reminder to myself and possibly as a talking point.,