A blog about automations, food and country life
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 […]
Being out in the country and seeing way more snow than I was used to, I got a spark of genius to see what it might feel like to camp during this time of the year. Before moving forward with anything, I had to talk to the sensible one in the relationship to see if […]
Both Elma and I are avid cooks and love our food a bit too much. Very rarely do we come across restaurant that tends to blow both our minds. Last month, we went to Moncton and Elma had tried this place before and she wanted me to give it a try. Its a Korean family […]
People talk about the covid weight gain, I fear that mine has been well before covid even started. So to keep an eye on my weight, we had purchased a Withings (now Nokia) weight scale and in all good things it connects to the internet. With the dashboard setup and me used to keeping an […]
A few things we have learnt over the years; the sun will still rise every morning and will set every evening. A good metaphor around the challenges and hopes around our day to day lives, but also the fact that I needed to make things turn on and off in the house. Now that is […]
With all the various sensors in the house, my lazy behind did not want to check the battery level on each one of them. Time to automate that as well! I wrote a script which polls all the devices once a day, and if anyone’s battery is below 15% it will let me know which […]
One of the perks of Dad and Mom living with us is that whenever I go “Mom I am craving ….”, she normally cooks it up within a day or two. So of course, like momma’s boy, I was craving Kebabs and told Mom about it. Mommy dearest asked which one I wanted: Chappli Kebabs: […]
With all the automations in the house coming along just fine, like any developer, I knew my code might have some bugs. So to see what the status of the house and lights are, I leveraged the webcore dashboard. It comes as part of webcore and each “routine” which they call piston can have its […]
Simple things unknown about my wife to the general public, is that she cannot sleep in the dark. This normally means that we need to have a night light in the bedroom which to my luck has always been on my side of the bed. This normally has been too bright for me and also […]
It seems like the house is getting used to the automations faster than I expected as now lately I got a request from Dad, saying “Can you put motion sensor lights on my way to the washroom and kitchen, so that I don’t have to stumble at night?” and I said “DONE!!”. As I did […]
