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 from a LDR and display its current value on the Arduino Serial Monitor. T...

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 the built in presence detection offered by Home Assistant t...

A while back I got brave and changed the firmware on the Sonoff switch connected to my lounge light to use it in my home automation. I followed these instructions when uploading the firmware and wa...

Today I will be looking at collecting and presenting temperature and humidity published by a couple of DHT11 & ESP8266 microcontrollers around the house. The code used to generate the messages ...

Today I would like to cover some simple security related monitoring in Home Assistant using the below components for under $5.00: Reed switch ESP8266 module needs to be a D1 Mini if you are p...

Following on from a previous post I would like to extend the functionality of Home Assistant using the OwnTracks plugin to get an idea of how full my phone battery is. This information could be use...

Today I am going to be covering the system monitor sensor for Home Assistant, specifically how to use it to monitor the underlying host computer (or system). This component exposes CPU, disk, memor...

Recently I bought my first 3D printer and could not be happier with it, or at least that’s what I thought… While watching some YouTube videos around 3D printing I stumbled upon an amazing project c...

Continuing with my series around home automation using Home Assistant I would like to cover the speedtest sensor component. As the name suggests this component makes use of speedtest.net to periodi...

Home Assistant (Hass) is hands down one of the best home automation frameworks (HUBS) I have used, and offers support for over 800 devices with that number growing almost on a daily basis. It not o...