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The Smart Home – Introduction
I was recently awarded a gift card for exemplar work at work which was amazing but it could only be spent in limited number of high street stores...
28 November 2019 by Thomas Preece Read more...
Home Assistant Kindle Dashboard
A lot of the powerful features of having a smart home are all the tasks that can be automated but there will always be manual tasks that require...
10 December 2019 by Thomas Preece Read more...
Kindle Dashboard Magnetic Charging Mount
After adapting the Kindle to work as a Home Assistant dashboard the next problem to solve was how to mount it and keep it charged. I’m currently in...
12 December 2019 by Thomas Preece Read more...Open Sourced: Alpine Kindle
My changes to alpine_kindle to make it work with older Kindles can now be found at https://github.com/thomaspreece/alpine_kindle/
24 February 2020 by Thomas Preece Read more...Open Sourced: Kindle Dashboard
The custom AppDaemon dashboard for controlling Home Assistant which works with Midori Browser on Kindle can now be found at https://github.com/thomaspreece/HomeAssistant_Kindle_PaperWhite_Dashboard for all those that wish to get...
27 September 2020 by Thomas Preece Read more...
Home Assistant (HA) is an open source home automation software designed to be the central control system in a smart home. Here I leverage it along with sensors and other software to automate several functions in my house. So far I have the following:
- Phillips Hue Motion Sensors and Light Bulbs (remove the need for light switches)
- MikroTik Router (uses wifi devices to detect my presence)
- Sonoff Smart Plugs with Tasmota firmware (wifi controlled smart plugs)
- e-ink kindle dashboards (long battery life home control interfaces)
- Logitech Media Server & ESP32-A1S boards (allows perfectly synced audio across multiple speakers/rooms)
- IotLink (allows control of windows machines from HA)
To learn more about how I implemented all of the above and how I use it see the posts below.