homeassistant
For years, I was content with my old Zigbee thermostats. They worked well, but after 3.5 years, about half of them required additional zip ties to keep the fragile battery covers from falling off. Plus, with their two-battery setup and inconsistent contacts, they drained power way too fast. Why
homeassistant
UPDATE: How to regain control of this switch (and others) after update to Zigbee2Mqtt 2.0 The problem I had was that over the years I had changed a lot of things to smart things in such a way that they could not be controlled directly. These include wall lights
homeassistant
Spring is here, so of course I had to do some tidying up and tending to my lawn. After mowing, scarifying, aerating, reseeding where holes had appeared and fertilising, the only thing left to do was to keep the lawn well watered. The grass I sowed was Wimbledon. The optimum
homeassistant
In newest release of Home Assistant there is cool new feature called Energy Management which adds dedicated dashboard when you can monitor all your devices that can do such measurment, mostly smart sockets. This should work out of the box, and generally it is working, but in my case I
cisco
This might look a little too complicated for its purpose, but it actually works quite very well. Recently I've migrated all standalone machines tu new server based on low voltage Atom C2758 CPU (8 core, 20W). Hypervisor of my choice is XCP-NG, as this was the easiets method