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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 ...
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Backing Up Android Nougat Easter Egg Cats (No Root)
Every major release of Android in the past couple years has received Google’s Easter Egg treatment. They like to sneak in wallpapers, silly animations, or a fun little game. With the release of Android Nougat (7.0.0), the Easter Egg ended up resem...