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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 on18/07/2022General

Going from combustion to fully electric vehicle

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Few weeks ago I made calculations between driving a combustion car and fully electric vehicle. With these gasoline prices in Finland (~2.5€/l) and electric prices…

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Posted on06/01/2022General

Looking back to year 2021

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New year, new automations! Just like beginning of the last year it’s time to summarise my smart home updates of 2021! New terrace audio Even…

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Posted on26/10/202126/10/2021General

The day when smart home went crazy

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This morning I was setting up a ‘new’ Lenovo Smart Clock related to bedtime routines (blog post coming up later). The setup went well and…

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Posted on14/09/202120/09/2021General

Raspberry PI as Z-Wave gateway using ZWave2MQTT

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By choosing HeatIt Z-Wave thermostats to be used to control heating at summer home I need to install a Z-Wave network at my summer home.…

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Posted on08/09/202108/10/2021General

Upgrading floor heating using HeatIt V3

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When we renovated the house almost three years ago, I installed electric floor heating to all of my four bedrooms. Since then I’ve been using…

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Posted on21/08/2021General

A picture is worth a thousand words

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There’s a saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words” so I decided to take a shot and opened up an Instagram account for my…

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Posted on12/04/2021General

Our top 5 smart home devices

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For this post I’m going to give you a quick look over my top five smart devices in our home. These devices are used the…

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Posted on11/02/202108/10/2021General

Adding sound to the deck

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Since last summers terrace expansion, I’ve been dreaming of some kind of sound system at the deck. Finally I managed to find a used Sonos…

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Posted on12/01/202112/01/2021General

Looking back to year 2020

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I was planning to write this post right after new year, but better later than never right? I’d though to look back to year 2020…

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