Buying Reolink Argus 2 for off-grid mount on cabin in the woods.
How to pair a pre-paired Philips Hue light in deCONZ
I bought a Philips Hue Being ceiling lamp. This is pre-paired with a remote and can be added to the Hue bridge with its serial number. This a nice feature and easy if you have a Hue-bridge, but how do you get it into deCONZ? The manual does not say anything about how to unpair it. When I google, I …
Home Assistant: Garage door status with Aqara Vibration Sensor
For almost two years ago, I wrote an article about controlling by garagedoor with the Qubino Flush 1D Relay. I always had a plan to add some status-sensor to the garage door. I started with a 433MHz sensor, but it was never a success. It was hard to place a magnet-sensor and 433MHz is not the best option – so …
Home Assistant – Leaf-MQTT
For some reason the Leaf-component in Home Assistant has not been working for some time. Since November 2020 according to the community forum. UPDATE: Before you read any futher… Home Assistant bumped pycarwings2 to 2.10 in the last 2020.12.2 release. I actually found this out just when I was going to add the data from the solution below, into HA. …
Home Assistant – Migrate from Zwave-integration to OpenZwave (beta)
Migrate from Zwave-integration to OpenZwave (beta)
Digital Ocean – Caps stuck, unable to login, etc…
Usually I just use root-password to setup a server for the first time, but this time I decided to try SSH key upon creating the server – instead of adding it afterwards. That was a bad move. No supported authentication methods available (server sent public key) I didn’t find any root-password. Probably because Digital Ocean don’t tell you that if …
Sonos and UniFi
After using two workdays to configure four Sonos speakers for a youth club at work, I found that Sonos has big issues with their onboarding. There are several of forums with problems around Sonos and UniFi-network, but I think this is more a Sonos- or timing-issue, than a network issue. I gave up the Sonos Beam the first day, after …
Housegard Note – An update
It is about 5 months since i wrote Housegard Note – Smokealarm (it works, kinda). I can happily say that we have had no fire in the house since I started to test these – but there have not been any false alarms either. I bought this for testing when we started renovating an apartment in the basement. As the …
Migrate Home Assistant to Hass.io/HassOS/Intel NUC
I installed Home Assistant on a old computer with Ubuntu server back in 2016. Lately they have released Hass.io, HassOS and changed the name of the basic Home Assistant to Home Assistant Core… I think… There has been a lot of names to keep track on here. I believe I had Home Assistant Core and migrated to HassOS/Hass.io now. My …
Get PHP Intellisens to work in Visual Studio Code, on Windows 10
Step 1: Download PHP Download PHP from here: https://www.php.net/downloads.php, click on Windows downloads. I just downloaded the .zip file at the top: VC15 x64 Non Thread Safe (2020-Mar-17 16:16:15)Zip [24.78MB]sha256: 1a1a90e07dfcc3b5b0f1847c2de58c7bf5386e5dd4616d680fe8bee27a24985e Extract .zip file I extracted it to C:/data/php-7.4.4-nts-Win32-vc15-x64 Step 2: Add environment path I found this article with some nice images: https://www.forevolve.com/en/articles/2016/10/27/how-to-add-your-php-runtime-directory-to-your-windows-10-path-environment-variable/ Basically you have to: Go to System …