Welcome back to part 5 of the “Getting Started with Home Assistant” series after a short hiatus – we saw some changes coming with regards to the mobile app which [ … ]
How to make your own dual-purpose wireless alarm system with Home Assistant – Part 1
Ever looked at adding an alarm system to your house only to overwhelmed by the plethora of options out there? We get you, it can be very hard to make [ … ]
FreeNAS Centralised Management – TrueCommand 1.1 release overview
I’ve been personally using FreeNAS permanently for around 6 years or so, around the 8.3 release, and it is ony of my favourite open-source projects to date. As a NAS, [ … ]
LinITX APU2 D2 Review – An exceptional Home/SMB Firewall
Netgate’s pfSense has surged in popularity over the last few years and has grown to be the most popular open source firewall out there, and it’s easy to see why [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 4 – Automations and Templates
Welcome to part 4 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series – Automations and Templates. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 3 – Configuration/Adding entities
Welcome to part 3 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series – Configuration and adding entities. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 2 – Setup and Lovelace Overview
Welcome to part 2 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series – Setup and Lovelace. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of [ … ]
Getting started with Home Assistant – Part 1 – Installation
Introduction Welcome to the first part of our Getting started with Home Assistant series, in this part we will take you step by step through installing Home Assistant. This series [ … ]
Wifi Dimmer switch with Tasmota – Tuya Dimmer guide
Dimmer switches have been around for a long time, useful for those situations where you just don’t want a bulb to be at 100% brightness all the time. So what [ … ]
How to flash custom firmware to a Sonoff Basic
Sonoff basics are amazing little devices and are probably the most popular way of making a dumb device smart. They are incredibly simple, versatile and very inexpensive. It has many [ … ]