Introduction When you decide to setup your own infrastructure in order to depend less on cloud providers, whether it be for saving money (de...

Today there is an off-the-shelf solution for practically every average-Joe-grade idea one may have. There is always the chance that when one...

One nuance of the first few iterations of any new design is that rarely comes optimized in every important aspect from scratch. It is very d...

It is fairly interesting that just as with other "things" that I have equipped my house with, this Kiosk and other IoT gadgetry pr...

 A problem with the earlier generations of Raspberry Pi's, especially the Pi 1 and the Pi 2 up to version 1.1, is that these cannot be c...

For some time I have been using the same Raspberry Pi 2 v1.1 as the infrastructure for my Hass.io instance. It proved to perform quite relia...

My previous post covered a first version of a watchdog timer that I used in the past for another project.  You may check it here. As I menti...

It was proven by Alan Turing back in 1936 that the halting problem applies for computing in general, and our contemporary computing machi...

With a project of this type, the hardware preparation is just the tip of the iceberg. It was thoroughly explained in the last post, despi...

It is great to have automation in the house providing increments of comfort such as eliminating manual tasks like cleaning the floor, or...

After some time using HA (Hass.io), and even longer using the Xiaomi Roborock (first generation) vacuum cleaner, I kind of felt a certai...

On my way to eat my own dog food, I learned the hard way that ghost switching is kind of the default problem most people will stu...

The Espressif Systems chip manufacturer kind of created a revolution by opening the door to the creation of dirt cheap chips for buildin...

I finished the first post with  a tone of optimism, in spite of not being quite there yet. But this time I'm bringing the complete story...

In my quest to make my house smarter, but still looking forward to keep having control over it, I have been doing some additions which I pla...

This is a quick post on a challenge I had to overcome while integrating my SmartTV (an LG TV 55UJ620V) with Hass.io. I wanted Hass.io ...

For some time I have been gradually bringing more devices to my house, which are either designed or having features allowing these to be int...