Now that I got the IR/RF smart remote from the previous post, I wanted it to control my patio lights. Now the challenge was that these lights were not smart, and adding my indoor smart switch was not great for the outdoors. So I need to investigate. Luckily all-mighty amazon came to the rescue and […]
One of the perks of the new place was that we got three heat pumps in the house, which is amazing for keeping our energy costs down. The downside to them was that they did not connect to my smart eco-system. So this needed to change. After doing some google-foo and thanks to all-mighty amazon, […]
Over the years I have been blessed with a lot of friends, and they have been cursed with me. The reason I say that is because I am a horrible friend. I do not call, I do not text, I do not make small talk. That is Elma’s PR section. Most people would like that, […]
Living out in the woods has a lot of perks, but no one warned me about how quickly the grass grows and how much love and care it needs to keep trimed. Dad and I were prepared to put in the hours that it would need to take care of the lawn. He even went […]
A year into the new normal with Covid-19 and working from home, sadly the body has taken a toll in terms of weight gain. The one good thing was that it wasn’t just me or my wife but it was a group of us that had increased weights, and instead of calling it Covid-19, we […]
It’s been a while since we’ve gone on a vacation and oh how I miss them. But whenever I’ve been on vacation I’ve always thought about the house and think about it safety. Now that we’ve moved away from town and our neighbors are farther away from us, we can’t count on them to let […]
After a few months with the SmartThings installed in the house, I knew that my code would have some issues. I wanted a way to see which lights were left on in the house so this way if I noticed a light being on for an extended period of time and none of my motion […]
For a very long time, Elma has been getting migraines and we did not know what was causing this. Now if anyone has had a migraine before, depending on the level, it can literally be blinding. Each person’s triggers are different so we, over the years, figured out that one of the major triggers was […]
Now that the dashboard was all setup, curious me wanted to see if I could add more information on it that I normally look up, like the weather. The big question was around what information do I like to see, was it just temperature or should I include cloud cover and other things as well. […]
Lately I’ve been getting a lot more notifications on my personal phone, and for people who know me I like to keep my work life and my home life separated as much as I can. Now during work times, if i’ve been getting a lot of notifications on my personal phone I tend not to […]
