Homeseer 4 GUI Hacks update for v4.1.17
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!
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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…
Homeseer 4 GUI Hacks
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…
Homeseer 4 GUI hacks – how to
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…
Google Chromecast: if I knew this before…
For quite a long time the Google Chromecast had been sitting in my mind. There was an unexplainable attraction but not enough to conquer the “why DO I need it?”. As a dear friend of mine says: “Why do I need it? Feeling beats relevancy” For years I have been searching … read more…
DNS server on my NAS
For quite some time I wanted to run a local DNS server so I don’t have to remember IP addresses. Yes, there’s many, it’s not my memory. In the huge amount of instructions I was unable to find exactly what I needed. Therefore I will post my configuration that might be helpful … read more…
Added plugwise Stealth
In an attempt to move away from the few X10 modules I have left in my house I ordered a Plugwise Stealth. This is an ‘appliance’ version of the Plugwise Circle. The Stealth is smaller than the Circle but I expected it to be way smaller. It’s not that small … read more…
Holiday – what should your house do?
After getting back from our summer holiday I figured that I should share some experiences on how my home automation should work during my holiday. What do you have to do when you’re going on a holiday or away for more than a couple of days? Lights IP camera (recordings) … read more…
Control your Philips TV with Homeseer?
With the 2010 and later Philips TV models you can control the TV’s via the network interface (Wifi or wired). This works through the open source Joint Space interface. (see press-release) So I created some code and a Homeseer script to control your TV through Homeseer. Guess what. Homeseer uses … read more…
Geofence integration Homeseer
On my Car Integration page you can see how I have setup a tracking system that integrates with Homeseer. What I really wanted is Geofences. This results in a couple of HS devices that tell me where my car is. Example: When my car enters a geofence I get a … read more…
Homeseer Email Integration
Homeseer can send emails but you cannot send emails to Homeseer. Using Jon00‘s Email plugin you can do this. Jon00’s plugin support forum: board.homeseer.com Functionality: Using email to trigger events and switch devices, integrated web-mail interface, announcements, etc. I use this script for a couple of things of which the Geo-fence GPS … read more…
Homeseer admin userinterface plugins
There’s a couple of plugins that can make your life in Homeseer a lot easier. – Account Links (by Jon00) – Webpage Builder (by Jon00) Account Links What? This allows you to change the look & feel of the Homeseer admin user interface. The most important functionality for me is … read more…