Finally wrote a book – Introduction to a Smart Home

Having an automated house has been great. Not just to save money, but also time and brain power (the little I do have). After Elma , Mom and Dad pushed me to write a book about it. Here is the first version of what could be more. Hope you read it, enjoy it and eventually […]

Setting up my patio routine

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 […]

The smart remote control

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, […]