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smart radiator valves trv control all your smart thermostats from the home assistant dashboard when you have several thermostats there s a need to see them at a glance home assistant has a tile card that provides a compact home garden monitoring at home jan 2025 by roger published jan 2025 last modified nov 2025 measure heating oil use or water tank level with a a02yyuw ultrasonic sensor this tank level sensor produces surprising detail about my heating oil usage it s a bit like a smart meter for oil so i now know say how many litres i burned each day for home garden monitoring at home jan 2025 by roger published jan 2025 last modified jan 2026 home assistant set up a bluetooth proxy in the esphome dashboard what you need to set up a bluetooth proxy a bluetooth proxy requires almost any of the esp32 development boards you can find at maker shops or amazon you need an esp32 based board not home garden monitoring at home jan 2025 by roger published jan 2025 use a switchbot water leak detector without a hub in home assistant set up a bluetooth proxy in esphome you can connect the switchbot water leak detector with home assistant without the need for a switchbot hub the detector uses bluetooth and wifi to send out its alarms which will be picked up home garden monitoring at home nov 2024 by roger published nov 2024 google nest can t connect to heat link failed to connect to heat link the google nest thermostat dial can have a wired connection and or a wireless connection with the heat link base a loss of wireless connection is a rare event and it usually fixes itself in home garden monitoring at home sep 2024 by roger published sep 2024 last modified oct 2024 adjust the room lights when the tv goes on and off home assistant smart devices often find their best uses in home assistant automations automations are better known as routines and they make quite unrelated devices interact with each other as will be shown below what follows home garden monitoring at home aug 2024 by roger published aug 2024 3d printing got more good the creality k1c is fit for purpose and ticks many boxes why the creality k1c impressed can t you think of any any negatives for a critical reviewer bringing more experience i d point you to daniel s crosslink channel on youtube this is a search link for home garden monitoring at home aug 2024 by roger published aug 2024 connecting a second wi fi router your home network the situation in addition to the router that serves your home with internet you ve another router that could perhaps improve your wireless or wired coverage the extra router could be any spare wi fi router home garden monitoring at home feb 2024 by roger published feb 2024 last modified may 2024 get water from a borehole the electrics and control bit visitors this year 1 148 remote homes and farms can get their water from a borehole years ago the owner of my house drilled the garden until they found a water source today i home garden monitoring at home feb 2024 by roger published feb 2024 last modified jan 2026 how virtualisation and containers are useful tips to start using proxmox visitors this year 1 244 why a server what can i use a home server for a vpn a router an ad blocker storage for backups a photo library a music server a printer server a home garden monitoring at home jan 2024 by roger published jan 2024 last modified may 2024 receive a notification of your home assistant ip address visitors this year 1 456 tldr one morning too often i ve woken to find that my smart things has gone stupid and they haven t turned on because the raspberry pi running home assistant has gone home garden monitoring at home jan 2024 by roger published jan 2024 last modified apr 2025 smarter home heating with thermostatic radiator valves trv and a review of the tado trv visitors this year 1 598 with today s energy issues it feels unnecessary to heat rooms we aren t using back in the day we fitted thermostatic radiator valves trv to radiators in central heating systems we home garden monitoring at home nov 2023 by roger published nov 2023 last modified may 2024 basic arithmetic in home assistant to calculate how much heating oil i need and when i need to order heating oil visitors this year 2 531 my boiler burns heating oil from a tank and unlike the gas that most homes burn it s finite so when it s gone i m cold ordering heating oil is tricky monitoring at home oct 2023 by roger published oct 2023 last modified nov 2025 use tailscale to remotely access your network the zero conf alternative to install at home and on your laptop phone and more visitors this year 3 274 i ve been using the wireguard or nginx to access my home network securely and i ve explained in other posts links below how they re used and set up tailscale however is home garden monitoring at home sep 2023 by roger published sep 2023 last modified dec 2025 sound motion activated led light strip for a staircase visitors this year 1 029 ws2812b strip inmp441 microphone wled sr software esp32 board shopping list for these motion activated stairway lights see photos wiring diagram for a microphone controlled led monitoring at home sep 2023 by roger published sep 2023 last modified mar 2024 sound motion activated led light strip for a staircase 2 visitors this year 204 an led strip 2 metres long runs beside the staircase a sensor detects movement which triggers a light pattern along the strip but if the sensor is a microphone rather monitoring at home sep 2023 by roger published sep 2023 last modified mar 2024 use a ttgo tft lcd to display temperature graphs and control a water heater visitors this year 6 473 you can graph temperature on this cute display and use buttons to turn on the heater as needed the project works with home assistant and needs very little else monitoring at home apr 2023 by roger published apr 2023 last modified mar 2024 network map scan and traffic setup nmap webmap and ntopng in docker visitors this year 4 496 if you have curiosity and or paranoia about what happens across your network there are tools which can gather information for you this post will show how to install tools to monitoring at home feb 2023 by roger published feb 2023 last modified mar 2023 set up moodle 4 in docker on a home server visitors this year 1 669 moodle is a web based platform where you can create learning activities manage course assessment and pretty much run a school or sell courses if your needs are small enough you home garden monitoring at home feb 2023 by roger published feb 2023 last modified mar 2023 smoke alarm 433mhz rf sensor for home assistant sonoff rf bridge visitors this year 674 this smoke alarm piqued my interest as a way to create an smoke fire alert when i might be elsewhere it s unbranded and labelled as c50d w 1527 can skip code which monitoring at home jan 2023 by roger published jan 2023 last modified apr 2024 use your sub domain to access your home server eg home assistant using a cname plus nginx proxy manager visitors this year 5 718 your need for a nicer sub domain at home you access an ip camera a router home assistant a wi fi access point a nas drive eg synology or qnap or perhaps monitoring at home dec 2022 by roger published dec 2022 last modified jan 2026 fix problems with timemachine backup on openmediavault set up and troubleshooting visitors this year 8 803 time machine is a backup utility on the mac this can work for years and then one day it doesn t if you need a file you had an hour ago home garden monitoring at home oct 2022 by roger published oct 2022 last modified aug 2025 calibrate and fit a vl53l0x time of flight sensor to measure water or oil tank level 2025 visitors this year 3 875 here is a tank level sensor that s more useful than anything you can buy this post focuses on my housing and the calibration for a basic sensor to measure oil home garden monitoring at home oct 2022 by roger published oct 2022 last modified may 2024 measure heating oil usage with a sensor and display on an energy dashboard easy visitors this year 2 789 how to make a heating oil tank level sensor that s more useful than anything you can buy this sensor background homes like mine use oil as a fuel to keep home garden monitoring at home oct 2022 by roger published oct 2022 last modified aug 2025 measure heating oil usage with a vl53l0x time of flight sensor and display on an energy dashboard 2025 visitors this year 5 556 how to make a heating oil tank level sensor that s more useful than anything you can buy this sensor background homes like mine use diesel oil as a fuel to home garden monitoring at home sep 2022 by roger published sep 2022 last modified nov 2022 using outdoor ip cameras for home security and monitoring poe visitors this year 819 tips on choosing cameras and using poe passive poe and waterproofing the connection how do i record activity from cameras buying a security camera system isn t just for professionals monitoring at home sep 2022 by roger published sep 2022 last modified feb 2026 a diy security camera system with object detection recording and phone notifications using docker frigate and home assistant visitors this year 10 549 let s start with the suggestion that an easy route to a security camera setup is to buy a kit with cameras and a system box to record events on site handling data from experiments home garden monitoring at home mar 2022 by roger published mar 2022 last modified mar 2023 use a smart switch to turn off a lithium battery charger visitors this year 2 158 i know that i ought not leave things powered on knowing that is easier than remembering that an e bike or drone or laptop battery is still connected below i show home garden monitoring at home feb 2022 by roger published feb 2022 last modified nov 2024 this motion detecting night light tells home assistant when you pass by visitors this year 5 116 the very popular but hardly known xiaomi nightlight which lights up a dark space when you pass now has a smart version a night light is nice on a dark stairway home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 last modified oct 2023 light up the staircase with an led strip and tasteless light effects visitors this year 1 547 see version 2 of this project here my initial want was for the stairs to have soft glow lighting but what the hec led strip lights do more than home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 last modified dec 2022 diet see your weight changing with a smart weighing scale visitors this year 1 248 a smart scale that records my weight to a phone might be seen as gadgety and unnecessary but i m now many months into this and think it s fabulous almost fact home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 last modified may 2023 buy the correct screw threaded adapters to mount a microphone and gopro on a tripod or stand visitors this year 982 gopro microphone and camera fittings are so ridiculously different so here are some pointers to help buy the right bits to mount them in all cases even a gopro below home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 last modified nov 2025 convert a bicycle to an e bike or electric powered bike visitors this year 1 478 when you want an e bike and you don t want another bike home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 ipad lcd magnifier or microscope for smd soldering or other close work visitors this year 448 if you re a casual electronics hobbyist like me the idea of using a lcd magnifier or microscope may seem attractive for example this music spectrum display kit requires soldering home garden monitoring at home jan 2022 by roger published jan 2022 last modified dec 2022 the google fit app helps record walking tracks sleep weight bike rides and calories visitors this year 1 330 topics on this page what do i eat how does my weight change do i get enough sleep where did i go today how does my body react to exercise home garden monitoring at home dec 2021 by roger published dec 2021 last modified jul 2022 huawei watch huawei watch fit new and huawei band 6 useful affordable smartwatches for 2022 visitors this year 438 if you re looking for a smartwatch look at the huawei watch huawei band 6 huawei watch fit new wearables if you ve yet to get yourself a smartwatch i ll home garden monitoring at home dec 2021 by roger published dec 2021 last modified aug 2024 sync huawei health watch data into google fit google drive or fitness apps like strava or komoot visitors this year 17 280 i can now see my huawei health data in google fit and google drive the health sync app acts as a go between and connects huawei health to several other monitoring at home dec 2021 by roger published dec 2021 last modified feb 2024 connect remotely to your home network using the wireguard add on in home assistant visitors this year 22 721 why do this at an early point on the journey to network heaven you may have a need to connect from some holiday location say to a camera your computer monitoring at home nov 2021 by roger published nov 2021 last modified jul 2023 how to stop a smart lamp and smart switch states getting out of sync visitors this year 882 two meanings of getting out of sync scenario one you ve two independently controlled table lamps which you d prefer to turn on or off together the lamps could be smart lamps home garden monitoring at home sep 2021 by roger published sep 2021 last modified dec 2021 robot arms reach out to the raspberry pi this is art visitors this year 463 what s going on hec i m in a room with robot arms and fingers twitching as they respond to social media this can only be art but it s art powered by monitoring at home aug 2021 by roger published aug 2021 last modified jul 2022 upgrade your router firmware to freshtomato visitors this year 11 165 the netgear nighthawk r7000 is a router switch and powerful wi fi access point in one unit and even in 2021 years on from when it was made it still offers home garden monitoring at home aug 2021 by roger published aug 2021 last modified dec 2021 addressable led light strips put to use visitors this year 510 there are led strip lights where every led can be doing something different with the result that you can create peculiar effects you can start with a commercially available kit monitoring at home aug 2021 by roger published aug 2021 last modified nov 2025 access your home assistant remotely using duckdns letsencrypt and the nginx ssl proxy visitors this year 6 934 home assistant is more useful if you can access this home automation hub away from home you can then control home assistant remotely with a browser or an excellent mobile monitoring at home aug 2021 by roger published aug 2021 last modified nov 2025 use nginx proxy manager with home assistant to access many network devices visitors this year 22 256 this page is for those who want to access home assistant from outside the home and also want to 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