The Current State of My Smart Home (2023)
In technology, if things stay the same then you are falling behind. I don’t like for my smart home to fall behind. I’m always making changes and improvements. In this article I’m …
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Air Quality Monitoring and Improving My Sensor
A little while back I wrote about my experience making an ESPHome-based air quality sensor. That sensor has continued to work really well for me. So much so, that I decided to …
Make Your Own Air Quality Sensor Using ESPHome
I’ve had a general curiosity about the air quality in and around my home. We use primarily hydronic heating and thus don’t get much airflow without opening the windows. We do have …
Improving My Year-Round Holiday LED Display
It’s been a few years since I first started getting into addressable holiday LEDs powered by WLED. A couple of years ago I expanded my LED display to permanent year-round holiday LEDs …
What’s In My Smart Home Toolkit?
When you start installing, configuring, and maintaining smart devices you start to realize there are some tools that can make the process easier. Sometimes you need to test smart home devices. Sometimes …
6 Places To Get Smart Home Help
Whenever you are working on DIY projects there is always the chance something will go wrong or stop working. But since you did it yourself, where do you go for help? Smart …
Brilliant Home Control: Light Switch of the Future
When it comes to smart homes, the only thing more difficult than building one is making them easy to control. Many DIY smarthomes are littered with features that only the person who …