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…
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…
It would be great if you could help me think about the following: Something that I would love to automate: every piece of paper in my house [stextbox id=”alert” caption=”Update!”] My Fujitsu S1500 scanner has arrived. More information can be found on the Project page. [/stextbox] Goal Scan … read more…
Even though I have not been using it because it takes time, I still wanted to post the script that’s working. Based on the Orange GPS trace service I created a script that allows you to put your car location & speed in HomeSeer devices. More info is available on … read more…
Battery Low? Communication failure? There’s a good chance you have devices with this status. How do you know about it? These devices don’t talk. So to solve this issue I wrote a script allows you to see if there’s issues with your devices. Once configured, this script will put the … read more…
Don’t have enough time to manage your Homeseer system? Same here ;-) I found that a lot of time spend was to monitor and maintain the HomeSeer system. The first question is: what do you have to do? Are you overlooking something like the system running out of disk-space? I … read more…
Today I received my Kiwi Wifi . This is an ODB2 interface that uses Wifi to talk to OBD2 applications. There’s a couple of iPhone apps that support the Kiwi Wifi. Now I have to find a way to link it to HomeSeer ;-) It’s all about integration and getting … read more…
Something that was on my to do list for a long time: document one of my older projects: Heating Control. This project allows you to control your Central Heating system (actually, the thermostat). I have to define “control” because you don’t have full control. What can you do: Switch a … read more…
Today I placed a webcam in my garden. A normal camera would never last more than 2 hours before my wife would remove it ;-). The WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) of a PTZ camera in the garden is close to ZERO. Therefore I had to think of something. The result … read more…
