That IT Guy You Know
I recently stumbled upon a pristine-looking, complete in-box Colecovision Expansion Module #2 (AKA the Steering Wheel). Showing no signs of the all-too-common leaky battery damage, I took the plunge, but when I tested the...
Welcome to the 5th part of a series on the Phoscon Zigbee Gateway. This section is a replacement for the 4th part and will focus on a much better Node-Red Integration. Relevant text from...
The Raspberry Pi is a very useful little computer. We use it as home automation hubs, servers for network services, emulation stations and more. Unfortunately, it uses the rather fragile micro-SD format as its...
What is Magic Cards? Magic Cards is a project from Maddox available on GitHub https://github.com/maddox/magic-cards It was developed as a way to launch music on Sonos devices and integrate with Home Assistant and Channels. It...
Today we look at the dangers of early adoption in the world of Smart Homes.
What is Ring MQTT? Ring MQTT also recently known as Ring Alarm MQTT, (but now greatly expanded beyond just alarm functions) integrates with the Ring app API and exposes the controls to a series...
You’ve probably heard a story or two about an Internet outage or a company shutdown effectively disabling someone’s system.
MQTT.fx is a cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) tool that is very useful for testing and debugging your MQTT broker and topics.
MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. Well, that’s not useful. Simply put it is a lightweight messaging protocol where clients can publish & subscribe to topics in order to share data. It works really...
A major part of most automation systems I build includes Node-Red. In today’s Quick Note we will install Node-Red. While some use a Raspberry Pi, for future-proofing and performance I prefer to use a...
I’ve seen several videos on converting single decora switches to momentary, but I haven’t seen any instructions on converting the dual switch versions. While considerably more expensive than their single switch cousins I find having the extra button outweighs the cost.
