This is one post in a series of getting up and running with Home Assistant from scratch. Today I would like to get Plex configured and running in Home Assistant. Thanks to all the hard work p...

This series of posts will cover setting up my Home Assistant setup from scratch back to, and beyond my old setup I was running back in South Africa. Our little family picked up and moved to Canada ...

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 started learning C# (to give you an idea of the age of this guy, it was writ...

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 much simpler flashing method. All credits to Justi...

This is a quick reference post to get you up and running with an ESP8266 / ESP32using the Arduino IDE. Get Arduino You can download the latest version of Arduino here, be sure to select the correc...

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 NanoPi NEO2 is a really small SBC similar to a Raspberry Pi, but...

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 (connected via LAN). Previously I was running my entire Home...

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 Assistant systemctl stop home-assistant@homeassistant.service ...

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 to be closer to her family. We decided to only bring the essentials ...

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 or similar module. As the name suggests ESPEasy aims to b...