{"id":297,"date":"2021-01-12T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creatingsmarthome.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:39:59","slug":"looking-back-to-year-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creatingsmarthome.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/looking-back-to-year-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back to year 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 and list things that improved my smart home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Roof<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The year started by installing a brand new roof on our house. This actually has nothing to do with smart home, but one important thing to our lives. The old tile roof was getting old and tens of tiles had to be replaced every spring. Also the underlay was not in very good shape so we decided to replace that at the same time of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New roof installation ongoing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and of course I dropped one Wireless Xiaomi Aqara temperature sensor in the attic aswell, just for fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio system replacement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Previously I had few Samsung Multiroom WAM750 speakers in the house. One in the kitchen and another one in the home office. Sound quality was good, but software was just awful. Also the integration to Home Assistant was close to zero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the times I was just listening a radio in the kitchen so decided to make a play\/stop -button for the radio. Old Integration can still be found from GitHub<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer I decided to get rid of the old Samsung Home theatre system as well and replace with Sonos (Soundbar, Sub and two satellites) system. …And of course it got out of hands (again), so the Samsung kitchen speaker was replaced at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later by that year I also replaced the office speaker with a refurbished Sonos Play:1. By the way, I certainly can recommend the Sonos Official Refurbished speakers<\/a>. Condition is like a new and everything is neatly packed. Also deliver from UK to Finland took only two days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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