Sam Akroyd

ThoughtsThe Vulnerability Supply Chain

The last few days in the cyber security world have been very unnerving. Not because of a new…

I’ve spent the last few months building my own Smart Home, but we all know residential tech often…

If you’ve been following the various episodes on building a Smart Home, you’ll know we’ve managed to make…

You will have seen me reference HACS in a number of my blogs in the past few months.…

Solar panels, batteries and EVs are some of the fastest growing markets worldwide as the green revolution grips…

So if you’ve seen the first blog on Frigate NVR and Home Assistant, and you’ve followed along –…

Home security systems are common-place nowadays, and smart cameras are even more common with the advent of Ring…

We’ve walked through the build of Home Assistant, we’ve talked through the basics, now let’s focus a little…

Home Automation is great, especially when it works seemlessly using your voice as a command or a sensor…

With Home Automation brings devices…. lots of devices. If you have a tonne of Zigbee or Z-Wave devices,…