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 […]
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 […]
Having the automower for the last month or so and actually being pleased with it, I needed to experiment with it. I was able to download the Husqvarna Automower application which gave me a lot of control on the mover. I was able to start/stop, set a schedule, adjust the grass height of the mover […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
