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Home Assistant From Scratch - Hue Lights

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Objectives Today's objective is pretty straight forward, we are »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, Tutorial, Basics, Philips Hue 02 July 2018

Home Assistant From Scratch - Setting Up Plex

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Objective & Requirements Today I would like to get »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, Tutorial, Basics, Git, Plex 28 June 2018

Home Assistant From Scratch - Secrets and Security

This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Objectives Today I am going to be covering secrets »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, Tutorial, Basics, Git, Samba, Security 28 June 2018

Home Assistant From Scratch - Installation

This Series This series of posts will cover setting up my Home Assistant setup from scratch back to, and beyond my old setup I was running »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, Tutorial, Basics 27 June 2018

Alert Maker Revival

While migrating some of my blog posts over from my old blog to this one I stumbled upon a program I wrote in 2011 when I »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Free App, Windows, Alerting 19 June 2018

Flashing Tasmota on Sonoff (Revised)

This post is an update to my previous "Changing Sonoff Firmware (Visual Guide)", and is based on the following Youtube video which makes use of a »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Sonoff, Tutorial, Flashing, ESP8266, Home Automation, MQTT, IoT 22 March 2018

Setting up ESP8266 on Arduino

This is a quick reference post to get you up and running with anESP8266 / ESP32 using the Arduino IDE. Step 1 - Get Arduino You can »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on ESP8266, Arduino, Quick Notes 19 March 2018

NodeRED on DietPi

Today I set out to get Node-RED up and running on a NanoPi NEO2 to help automate some simple tasks in my home automation setup. The »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on DietPi, Node-RED, Home Automation, IoT, Tutorial 15 March 2018

MySQL and Home Assistant

To get the best performance out of Home Assistant I always like to make use of MySQL as a data store hosted on another computer / device »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, DietPi, Quick Notes, SQLite, IoT, Tutorial, MySQL 16 February 2018

Upgrading Home Assistant on DietPi

This is a quick post on how to update Home Assistant running on DietPi or any other Debian build of Linux (e.g. Raspbian). Stop Home »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, DietPi, Quick Notes, Upgrading 15 February 2018

Installing Mosquitto on (DietPi / Raspbian / Debian)

At the end of December last year my family and I immigrated to Canada (from South Africa) for a fresh start and to allow my wife »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Tutorial, MQTT, Mosquitto, DietPi 08 February 2018

Home Assisatnt + ESP Easy + DHT11 = :)

Today I would like to look into an awesome project called ESPEasy and how one may use it to publish temperature data collected via a DHT11 »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on ESP8266, Arduino, Tutorial, Home Assistant, Home Automation, MQTT, IoT, ESPEasy, DHT11 10 December 2017

Arduino Basics: LDR

This is the first (in the hopes of many) Arduino Basics posts that I am planning to do. My goal today is to read the value »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Arduino, Tutorial, Basics, Electronics 30 October 2017

Monitoring a Door with Home Assistant

Today I would like to cover setting up alerts through Home Assistant when my kitchen door is opened. In the future this will be used with »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, MQTT, Security, ESP8266, 3D Printing, IoT, Arduino, Tutorial 19 October 2017

Sonoff & MQTT Example (Lounge Light)

A while back I got brave and changed the firmware on the Sonoff switch connected to my lounge light in to use it in my home »

Richard Niemand Richard Niemand on Home Assistant, Home Automation, Node-RED, IoT, Tutorial, Sonoff, MQTT 03 October 2017
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