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Posted on03/05/202317/05/2023Reviews

Guest Review: SwitchBot Curtain in the hands of a Home-Automation amateur

by Kimmo2 Comments on Guest Review: SwitchBot Curtain in the hands of a Home-Automation amateur

I was asked by my friend and the Creating Smart Home mastermind Toni if I could test a Switchbot Curtain, a retrofit device for opening…

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Posted on17/04/2023Home Assistant

Home Assistant: Setting up time schedules to Shelly devices (gen1 and gen2)

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Since my transformation to dynamic electricity prices are ongoing, I need to try to tackle up all the corner cases that comes with it. In…

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Posted on12/04/202314/04/2023Home Assistant

Home Assistant: Advanced Nord Pool Cheapest Hours automation with local calendar support

by Toni30 Comments on Home Assistant: Advanced Nord Pool Cheapest Hours automation with local calendar support

In few weeks I finally have to move from constant electricity price to the spot price and I’m going to have to expand my automations…

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Posted on03/04/202317/05/2023Reviews

Review: SwitchBot Blind Tilt Controller

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I’ve already dove into the SwitchBot ecosystem and this time it’s time to check out their most innovative product yet: The SwitchBot Blind Tilt Controller.…

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Posted on27/03/202317/05/2023Guide

Guide: Bluetooth Proxy to Home Assistant using ESPHome

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In previous post I briefly looked into SwitchBot Bluetooth ecosystem and promised to write a post about setting up a Bluetooth Proxy using ESP32 and…

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Posted on22/03/202317/05/2023Reviews

A dive into SwitchBot ecosystem

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You must have heard about SwitchBot? The small and simple finger bot to press a physical button of any kind. However, that’s not all with…

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Posted on11/03/2023Home Assistant

Home Assistant: Notifying offline states of Z-Wave devices

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It’s essential thing to keep all security devices online 24/7 in order them to function properly in every case. Thinking of that I got an…

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Posted on08/01/2023General

Looking back to year 2022

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It has become a tradition to write a small retrospective that looks into a previous year, and of course it’s not an exception this time…

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Posted on31/12/2022Home Assistant

Home Assistant: Tesla Charger Release Button

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If you own a Tesla EV and don’t have original Tesla charger you might missing one crucial thing that makes your life much easier: Tesla…

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Posted on01/12/2022Reviews

Review: HeatIt Z-Smoke Multisensor AC

by Toni4 Comments on Review: HeatIt Z-Smoke Multisensor AC

For a while I’ve been looking for a AC (230v) connected Z-Wave smoke detector, but to be honest, there are not that many vendors manufacturing…

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