What is the real outside temperature? My sensors reported temperatures ranging from 13.7° to almost 19°?? Erhh, wich sensor should I believe? Temp Device Protocol Frontdoor 15.6 ° Philips Hue Motion Zigbee Garage 13.7 ° Philips Hue Motion Zigbee Outside 18.9 ° Oregon THGR 328N 433Mhz Buienradar.nl 15.5 ° Website … read more…
GOAL Automate the hallway lamp as much as possible Minimizing lamp turned on if not needed Wife doesn’t want it to be turned OFF in the evening (except after 21:00) Schedule Countdown Timers – Example Flow Notes You can always overrule rules using wallswitch or app If the … read more…
For the past 15 years I have been monitoring shower water consumption using an RFX Meter. That works fine but it uses 433Mhz to transfer data to the RFX_LAN. And as I want to reduce the amount of technology types and protocols, I started looking for a new solution. 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 … 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
