Do you want to install home automation at home, but don't know where to start? Here are 10 tips to install home automation at home without dying in the attempt The trick is to have some good tips to help you get started and to clarify some ideas if you want to have a home automation system. Do you want to know what I've ... Read more
Why is Raspberry Pi so useful for smart home automation? Let's find out...
Do you want to know what makes my house really "smart"? What makes a house smart is not motorised blinds or dimmable lights, that's just home automation, and here we're going to look at what really makes a house smart.
How to connect the Geiger counter via wifi and send to the internet, easily and in real time, the Beta and Gamma radioactivity data generated by the counter.
How can I measure radioactivity? As part of my penchant for measuring and monitoring everything, I have been thinking for some time about adding a Beta and Gamma emission detector (what we usually call a radiation meter), a Geiger-Muller counter or Geiger meter, to my list of sensors. When the Chernobyl incident occurred in the Soviet Union (more specifically, in today's Soviet Union), I was thinking of adding a Geiger-Muller counter or Geiger meter to my list of ... Read more
Sending messages via telegram with MQTT is easy from the home automation system.
Those of you who are regulars on the blog already know that I like to measure everything, and gas is no exception. One thing that not many people know is that it is usually very easy to measure because the meters have a "magnetic output" that can be easily read. The difficulty is, more than anything else, in ... Read more
Recently a new need has arisen for me: how to control Milight devices via Rflink in order to integrate them into my home automation system and, in this way, be able to automate them, create macros and routines, control them from my mobile phone, from Google Assistant (Google Home), etc. The truth is that my house looks like a fair of the ... Read more
Voice control, with Siri, of any home automation device via MQTT and HomeBridge