Do you struggle keeping track of the household chores assigned to your kids? Or motivating them to complete their tasks? At one point, we used a whiteboard to keep track of tasks. But it's analogue, got limited space, got no time tracking, can't notify me, it's easy to forget to reset and hard to ca...
Have you ever wanted a smart home dashboard that adapts to the mobile phone in your pocket, any wall mounted standard tablets or to your laptop? I always wanted it, and luckily, the flexibility and openness of Home Assistant makes it possible.
This article will outline the major design principle a...
The notification system is King in my Home Assistant setup. I can have visitors that are completely unaware of smart features in my home; up until the house notifies me of finished laundry, garbage collection, an open door or that someone is approaching the house.
Because notifications are so prom...
This is a guide to create your own ESPHome multisensor. The multisensor is packed with functionality in an elegant box. The components cost as little as 20$. The price includes the ESP-WROOM-32 development board and temperature, relative humidity, light, motion and sound detection, plus an RTTTL b...
So I've struggled some time with getting the KY-037 and KY-038 sensors working for ambent sound detection/tracking in ESPHome. These sensors seem to lack sensitivity to be used for anything short of detecting alarms or really loud sounds.
I wanted to build a device to measure the general noise in...
Looking waaay back to the blog post about setting up NFS for filesharing with Windows clients, I find it necessary to apologize for misleading my two faithful readers. I'm sorry!
In the beginning, it seemed easy to share files over NFS and it worked really well - until I noticed the craziness...