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Mounting NAS Shares for Frigate in Home Assistant OS
I recently switched my Network Video Recorder (NVR) from Synology Surveillance Station to Frigate, and will never look back. It turns out people say “Frigate is awesome” for...
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Improving the Ezviz DB1 doorbell
I am preparing to replace my Nest doorbell with the Ezviz DB1. But first of all, it desperately needed facelift. This wonderful device has two asthetic issues I...
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Real-Time Picture-in-Picture Camera Feeds on your TV with Home Assistant
I’ve found a way to get a RTSP camera feed to display in a picture-in-picture popup on my TV, without interrupting any other viewing that might be going...
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Docker Swarm Lowers the Shields
Today I learned that Docker automatically does extremely wreckless and dangerous things to the firewall on every node in a docker swarm, which leaves various swarm services wide...
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Virtual Energy Meters with PowerCalc
In my last post I described how I optimised my home heating with Home Assistant and then created virtual energy sensors to monitor my estimated gas usage from...
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Virtual Gas Meters in Home Assistant
Unfortunately, we do not have smart gas meters in Ireland. However, I realised that I could use Home Assistant to create virtual gas meters, which provide a good...
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Automating Heating with Home Assistant
I’ve been on a mission to use Home Assistant to optimize my home heating, with the dual goals of reducing gas usage and increasing comfort. It’s worked out...
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Automating the HY367 / HY368 Smart Radiator Actuator in Home Assistant
The HY367 and HY368 Smart Radiator Actuators are relatively cheap smart thermostatic valves that you can attach to the radiators in your house, effectively turning each room into...
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The road to native ES6 SPAs
TL;DR. In this post I go on a major rant against the Javascript/Babel/Webpack/Node development stack, and then talk about the problems I’m facing in my attempt to jettison...
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