November 18, 2021 Tasmota Run on Timer Rules: Triple bathroom light button Use of a triple pushbutton, running Tasmota to do simple run-on functions in a bathroom. Categories Home Automation Comments: 0
April 17, 2021 LED Strip Ambient Up-lighting Some notes re how I have used LEDs for decorative up-lighting in between ceiling beams, and controlled with Tasmota and Node Red. Categories Home Automation/Lighting Comments: 0
October 31, 2020 Tasmota Flash of GLD110HA Smart Globe Flashing a cheap Wifi connected smart light bulb with Tasmota (attempting to use Tuya Convertmethod, but reverting to a hardware flash) Categories Home Automation Comments: 0
November 13, 2019 Home Automation: Future Thinking So, home control with your own setup is great, but you have to think about what happens in the event you sell your house, get hit by a bus or someone needs to work on it in the future. Home Automation should add value to a house, not turn people off a sale. This is part 2 of some of… Categories DIY Projects/Home Automation/Projects/Technology Comments: 0
November 13, 2019 Home Automation: Electrical Safety This is part one of some of my notes regarding Home Automation concepts. Part 2 is about planning for the future and house resale value. Electrical Isolation/Safety Electrical safety is very important obviously for home automation, and as well as my tendency to over-engineer, I’m often thinking about ‘what could possibly go wrong‘. One of the things I want to… Categories DIY Projects/Home Automation/Projects/Technology Comments: 0
July 8, 2019 Conversion of Ceiling Attic to Storage In 2019 I converted a ceiling space atticin our current house to storage (on a budget). You can never have enough home storage. This is the 5th type of install I’ve done like this (Similar in 4 previous houses), and as well as being useful, home buyers love it (if done well). Categories Home Renovations/Projects Comments: 0
February 4, 2019 5 Steps to DIY Home Automation You can spend thousands on home automation equipment. You could get yourself an ecosystem like Apple Homekit, Samsung Smart-Things, Control4 or many others, however with just some moderate techo skills you can set up or convert your home to pretty awesome home control with DIY. My take on home automation is that it should be pretty much invisible. Things should… Categories DIY Projects/Home Automation/Technology Comments: 0
