Home Automation

Home Assistant: We’ve done Smart Home, what about Smart Garden?

Sam Akroyd / September 25, 2024

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

Sam Akroyd / September 10, 2024

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

Sam Akroyd / September 2, 2024

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

Sam Akroyd / July 23, 2024

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

Sam Akroyd / July 16, 2024

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

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

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

Sam Akroyd / June 18, 2024

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

Sam Akroyd / June 11, 2024

If you’ve read the previous blogs, you’ll already know why to go Smart Home, what options there are out there

So we’ve decided on the platform; Home Assistant. And now we need to get get the parts to build and