For some of you who know my wife, Elma, knows that she is very forgetful. Which normally isn’t an issue as I keep on top of things. Elma lately wanted to take more in charge and be on top of things, but due to her short term memory she would ask me to remind her […]
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 […]
After using the sensors in the kitchen along with the weather for a while, we noticed that the weather information was not the most up to date which meant that the lights would not be turned on or off correctly. I did some digging into it and found the following Light & Motion Sensor which […]
With fall soon approaching, it brings the uncertainty of what the weather will be like. To ensure that Mom and Dad stay warm and, me not constantly running back and forth from turning the heat pump on/off and opening and closing the windows. I had to come up with something better. From a previous post […]
I don’t know if you have run into this situation or not, but when I am browsing the internet or something important on my phone and I need to remember it. I normally take a screenshot of it, which sounds excellent in principal however I tend to send it to myself. Which defeats the whole […]
It’s been a year-and-a-half since we been working from home, and I have started noticing some routines that I do with my cell phone. Like, when I start work I turn the volume to 0 and when I stop working I turn the volume to 100%. Now this got annoying as I like to automate […]
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 […]
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 […]
