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My son gave me his old MakerBot Replicator. This is my first venture in to 3D printing. I was able to fit it in my printing closet here. Printing closet is just a walk in closet in office (spare bedroom). First attempt at using the MakerBot will be to build a case for my garage door opener...

For years here have been using the Davis Vantage Vue - with a CumulusMX and Meteobridge connection - It is still working fine. Only one issue in the last 10 years was that a bird ate the wind cups off. A couple of weeks ago purchased the ECOWITT Wittboy Weather Station GW2001, Includes GW2000...

Started to Tinker with the Home Assistant Voice Preview edition. I am impressed. A few months tinkered with the M5-Atom Echo. Tiny device. Worked fine. Easy set up. Installed a voice template that works nicely with the PE device. Voice - Weather Forecast - Local Assist Blueprint Also...

Noticed an email from OBITalk today. I am currently using my OBI box with Google Voice. It is working fine. Should I be concerned?

Home Assistant Core Update 2024.5.4 update appears to remove parts of the HA GUI (Lovelace) on Chrome and Firefox in Linux. Clearing the browser cache did not fix it. Downgraded to Home Assistant Core Update 2024.5.3 which is working fine. Never seen this before. Update: 24th of May, 2024...

Seeing a reboot or restart of the OmniLinkBridge this morning. Note: here using a microfirewall (OpenWRT) connected to the network port of the OmniPro 2 panel and getting a disconnect from the OmniLinkBridge HA add on causing TTS events to trigger. (IE: garage door open event). Looking at...

Status February 27, 2024 - Hardware - Lenova Tiny M900 - 32Gb RAM - 250 Gb SSD Software - Base OS Ubuntu 22.04 Mono Homeseer 4 - grown to 1.6Gb CumulusMX - grown to 6Gb Oracle Virtual Box - grown to around 100Gb Home Assistant VB - grown from 4Gb to 60Gb - 8Gb of RAM Windows 7 32bit VB -...

Here still using Homeseer TTS (collect voice fonts here) and Alexa for TTS. Recently read this: $13 voice assistant for Home Assistant Just purchased two of the speaker development kits. Looks to be plug and play. Will detail installation here in this new blog.

Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands "Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people know the story...

It appears that the Home Assistant MyQ integration is no longer working. I have patched a couple of Python scripts to get it working over the last month and it did work for a few days. I have always had issues with the use of MyQ and cloud connectivity. Initially it was helping a neighbor set...

WGL Designs W800RF32 Here still using the W800RF32 with Homeseer. I am running Homeseer 4 and Home Assistant on an Ubuntu 22.04 computer. Homeseer 4 is running on native Ubuntu 22.04 and Home Assistant is running in a Virtual Box. The hardware is an IBM Lenova Tiny M900. I am going to...

On this day in history, August 11, 1964, Beatles' iconic film 'A Hard Day's Night' is released. 'A Hard Day's Night' will mark its 60th anniversary in 2024. The film received two Oscars during the 37th Academy Awards (1965), which honored movies from 1964. "A Hard Day’s Night" won an Oscar...

Here since the 1990's always fascinated with Lightning. Used a 1-Wire lightning sensor back then with Homeseer 1. (late 1990's - early 2000's) Still have the sensor and it still works fine. LD3-R2 Lightning Detector - How it works connected to a Mideon Temp05/08 This blog is about Lightning...

Securing the Smart Home Network: The Risks of the IoT Zachary Comeau Cybersecurity professionals say the Internet of Things is more like the Internet of Threats. Here's why. The Internet of Things (IoT) has exploded in recent years as user demand for connectivity and remote management have...

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Built one using an RPi a few years back. Works fine today. How to use a AS3935 Lightning sensor with a Raspberry Pi Reference: AS3935 Franklin Lightning sensor Tasmota view: and in MQTT topic when an Event occurs...

Noticed recently here that HA #2 Virtual Box running on Ubuntu 22.04 host kept running of memory and rebooting itself. IE: would run up to 100% in less than an hour then reset itself. HA #1 running many add ons averages 8% utilization. HA #2 Add ons used: HACS==> Add ons 1 - Advanced SSH...

This is a redo / rebuilt of a Tasmota Sonoff Basic generation 1 that has been working now for 3+ years. This works fine with the Tasmota web interface, Homeseer 3-4 and Home Assistant. Note with the Sonoff Basic R1 cut the 120VAC traces of the board with a small saw. You need some soldering...

This is a cross post from Homeseer. Here have always tinkered with Weather Stuff - 1 - AAG 1-Wire weather station in the 1990's 2 - Davis Instruments Weather station in the 2000's 3 - NOAA - weather map downloading - RPi and SDR 4 - Lightning sensor - RPI project References: BH1750...