Proxmox with a Home Assistant Virtual Machine
Third article in a series to get Home Assistant running and configured within a Proxmox VE environment.
Proxmox: Installation & Configuration
The 2nd article in the series Migrating Home Assistant to Proxmox. This focuses on installing the base Proxmox server and prep.
Migrating Home Assistant to Proxmox
Migrating Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi to Proxmox for stability and speed. A series of articles on the process and gotchas to watch out for
My Home Automation Journey
My current Home Automation project, its fits and starts and testing between Hubitat and Home Assistant – my final choice and where to go next
Using WeeWX for Home Automation
Now that Wunderground has decided to remove free API access for PWS owners, we needed a local replacement using WeeWX for home automation systems.
WeeWX Weather Station Post Install Configurations
Previously I posted about migrating my Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station running WeatherCat software on a MacMini to WeeWX software on a Raspberry Pi. This continues the configuration and customization of the solution
The Hubitat Journey Continues – WebCoRE
The continuing saga of Local Processing – WebCoRE Updated January 2nd 2021: A reader, Robert Challoner, messaged me that the GIT package address changed since I wrote this and I updated it below. Robert – thanks for the heads up! I also did some cleanup of the layout to make it easier to copy and […]
Migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat
All Politics (and Automation) is Local As I have written about previously, I’ve been working on a smart home / automation solution in my house for about 12-18 months now. My initial buildout was heavily based on the Samsung SmartThings ecosystem, which at the time was probably the best available for the investment (time and […]
Home Automation with SmartThings and ActionTiles
Do press the shiny red (ActionTiles) button! Moving further down the road of my smart home automation insanity, I’ve started looking for a panel to control things around the home. The paradigm I was looking for is not very different from a home security alarm control panel. I wanted a wall mountable or tabletop touch […]
Home Automation Solution Mapping
Home Automation, or has my house become self-aware? SkyNet Be Damned! I’ve been playing around with Home Automation and SmartHome IoT technology for a couple of months and went searching for a way to map out all the connections, dependencies and devices in the house. I tripped across SmartHomeDB on my twitter feed and gave […]