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Trading in Nest for TensorFlow and Z-Wave
A few weeks ago, Google announced the shutdown of its Works with Nest developer program only 16 weeks in advance. The Works with Nest program allows third-party applications like Home Assistant and IFTTT to integrate with Nest products. Without th...
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Hacking Voice & WiFi Control into My Dumb Noise Machine
Picture this. It’s night time. You’re winding down and the end of a long work day getting for sleep. You climb into bed and pull the cozy covers up to your neck. Rolling over, you whisper a command to your digital assistant to turn off the lights....
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How I Dim My Hue Lights with a Plex Webhook
Last week, the Home Assistant project launched webhooks triggers for automations. This means a user could create an endpoint to be hit from an external source and start a task. In my case, I wanted to use webhooks from Plex to dim (or brighten) my...
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Bringing Home Automation Back Home
I’m a big fan of automation. Repetitive tasks annoy me and I try to find the best way to optimize activities. Earlier this year when Google Home rolled out custom routines, a weird behavior involving lights and routines prevented me from syncing m...
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Improving Jekyll in 2017
When I took a look at my website last year, it needed help. There wasn’t a whole lot wrong, but there definitely were areas that needed improvement. For starters, I wasn’t testing anything (don’t judge me). How would I test things? By overkilling ...