For years I have been using Homeseer but realized that for me it was time to move on.. Note that I’m not the expert but someone who wants to share his experience hoping that it helps you. This post doesn’t tell you how to do things but helps you to … read more…
How do you deal with camera snapshots? Where do you store them, how do you archive them? In short: 1. Take snapshot 2. Store snapshot 3. Copy to archive location Let’s first think about what should trigger the creation of a camera snapshot. Snapshot triggers What triggers a camera … read more…
UPDATE: on June 26th 2021, the content of this post was moved back into the main post: Homeseer 4 GUI Hacks Instructions See HS4 GUI hacks v2 Enjoy!
read more...Playing with Homeseer API’s? Here’s the perfect tool for you. Postman is, by itself, a fantastic tool to test API’s but you have to enter all API details. That’s where collections help out. I have added all API endpoints and documentation in a “collection” file that you can import straight … read more…
In an attempt to make the HS4 GUI somewhat usable I added some GUI hacks. This time I won’t show all code + changes in detail but I will share the code (devices.html) and images of the changes (below). NOTE: the updated HTML has comments showing what/where/why changes were made. … read more…
These are some of the GUI hacks I applied to Homeseer 4. “Changing the HS4 user interface? Why would you do that?“ Well, because it is horrible. The bad thing is that I have asked for many of these things multiple times and they are EXTREMELY easy to fix, especially … read more…
Today I ran into an interesting article about the Amazon Alexa voice service (AVS). This used to be available only on the Amazon Echo device but is now also available for non-Echo devices. In this case they run it on a Raspberry Pi 2! A while back I wrote a … read more…
If you’re a Homeseer user there’s a BIG chance you’ve heard of Jon00. He has created many great extra’s for Homeseer. INFO: http://www.jon00.me.uk/hs.html (enter username/pwd: guest/guest twice) One of the great scripts is “Jon00 Database Charting Utility for Homeseer 3”. The plugin can write data to an SQLite database and use … read more…
Here’s an issue I have run into many times: great plugin/script for Homeseer, but it lacks a web-based configuration page. Result: you need to edit a physical file on your Homeseer server to make changes. Not ideal. So the idea arose to create a piece of code that would – based … read more…
After moving to a different house I decided to get rid of the old crappy X10 technology…. Wow! Suddenly there is….. – no doorbell press notifications – no heating control (solved: smart thermostat) – no central ventilation control Decision: embrace Z-Wave. After talking to a couple of people the following products have … read more…
