Abstract Today we are definitively getting to a point where it becomes challenging to draw the line between a household product being bought...

Ever since I became owner of a swimming pool, a whole new set of chores and responsibilites were unlocked. Some are the repeating manual tas...

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

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...

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...

The sense of smell is an amazing function in vertebrate animals. Even the human nose, which is not particularly notable in comparison wit...

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...

As an update to the previous post where I have shared the details on how to "Tasmotize" this device , I am adding more detail on w...

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

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...