Maybe it’s only me, but I frequently forget to turn my outside zone off (zone 2) since it uses outdoor self-powered speakers.Yes I turn off the outside powered speakers, but forget about the inside audio […]
Category: automation
One of the frustrating annoyances with tawkto livechat is that it forces a logout every 7 days on all its apps ( iOS / Android / Windows / macOS ).Whilst I understand why they do […]
When I initially received my hue smart button, I was disappointed that the default Philips hue app did not have any advanced options for the “smart” button.The only things I could do with the default […]
Whilst tools like DNS benchmark exist, I overlooked a very simple option available in adguard named “parallel requests”, this will query all the upstream DNS servers you define, and whatever server replies the fastest will […]
At times for an unknown reason, my AdGuard docker instance running on home assistant operating system stops responding, it ignores all queries sent to it. I have to manually restart the container, and with home […]
A Philips Ambilight can connect to Philips Hue lights. We put down 4 KALLAXes next to one another (2×2 kallax units), but it always felt like a dark place so when I wanted to add […]
I’m not sure if it is ever going to work for you, but I’ve set up my HomePods to bark when we are not home and motion outside of our door is detected.It’s that effective […]
Setting a Philips air purifier AC3829 to turbo mode with home assistant when my 3D printer prints (a Prusa mini) My Prusa mini printer is sitting in my home office, so when it’s printing for […]
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