2 weeks ago
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Automation, Jeedom: tutorials on the Home Automation server, installation, plugins, scripts
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Since switching to version 3 of Jeedom, the image of the SD card of the home automation server is no longer available for download. Jeedom now installs on any Linux distribution based on Debian 8 using a script (like Domoticz for that matter). It will be possible to create a …
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17 July 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation, Homie library, IoT - Connected Objects, MQTT
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After introducing the Homie library in the two previous articles (well starting with Homie, programming principle), it is time to move on to a complete example of application. In this tutorial we will learn how to include a temperature probe in the home wizard Home Assistant developed based on an …
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12 July 2017
Advanced, Blynk, Difficulty level, Home Automation, Homebridge, IoT - Connected Objects
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Blynk consists of a server and an application for iOS. If you have your own Blynk private server (read this article to learn how), you can make your connected objects developed using Blynk accessible from the internet without having to expose your hardware to the internet through the Homebridge project. …
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3 July 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, DIY Home Security Camera Systems, DIY Projects, Home Automation, Raspberry Pi Zero W tutorials, Smart Home
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Since version 1.3, the Raspberry Pi Zero has a camera connector on which the 8MP camera of the Raspberry Pi can be connected by means of an adapter. Home Assistant supports many cameras. In this project, we will be manufacturing – very quickly – a mini surveillance camera using Node-RED. …
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23 June 2017
Home Automation, Homebridge
912
At the WWDC 2017, Apple opened its HomeKit API to Makers and companies that want to develop non-commercial projects. HomeKit makes it possible to communicate an iPhone or an iPad with an object connected by WiFi but also from an Internet connection. In this case everything goes through Apple’s iCloud …
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21 June 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
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Connected objects developed using the MySensors library are very well supported by Home Assistant. In this tutorial, we will see how to integrate MySensors projects developed using version 2.x of the library. You can connect directly to a MySensors Gateway or an MQTT gateway. We will see how to do …
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19 June 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
1,105
The Xiaomi Smart Home kit is very well supported by the Open Source Home Assistant home automation server. This very economical kit is very well adapted to begin in home automation. In this tutorial, we will configure step by step the main devices of the kit: gateway, temperature and humidity …
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15 June 2017
Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation
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Smart Shades by Wazombi Labs is a small box that allows motorizing a window blind. Wazombin Labs is a small Estonian service company. It specializes in circuit design, embedded software, development of mobile applications (iOS and Android) and design of interfaces (and animations). Wazombin being its catalog of skills by …
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12 June 2017
Home Automation, Home Automation Devices, Homebridge
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To use Arduino-based connected objects or an open source home server on iOS, you had to use the open source Homebridge project that was presented several times. On the occasion of the WWD 2017 (developer conference), Apple announced the opening of the HomeKit protocol which allows to communicate and control …
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9 June 2017
Advanced, Difficulty level, Home Assistant, Home Automation Server, Home Automation, Orange Pi
1,133
Home Assistant is a home automation server fully developed in the Python language, so it is possible to install it on an Orange Pi. For this tutorial, I used an Orange Pi+ 2e equipped with 16GB of memory eMMC working Armbian. Home Assistant has evolved a lot in one year. …
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DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing
