Category: Home Automation

8th January 2021

Installing Home Assistant OS (HASSio) in ESXi

UPDATE: As of February 2021, Home Assistant now provides an official OVA file on their site, available from the alternative installation options page. This makes the installation process in ESXi trivial: Click the “Create...

Home Automation

8th May 2017

Wireless Doorbell – Part 1

My new house currently has no doorbell and, whilst I could just buy a normal dumb wireless doorbell or install a wired doorbell, the temptation of making my own flexible system is too great....

Home Automation / Raspberry Pi

11th April 2017

Getting Picons Working in TVHeadend and Kodi

What are Picons? Picons are channel logos which are linked to one or more TV channels using a service reference or a simplified version of the channel name. Kodi is able to display these...

Home Automation / Raspberry Pi

14th October 2016

Creating an SSH Key Pair for the openHAB exec Binding

The exec binding in openHAB is a brilliant way of controlling and running scripts on other computers, however it is unable to send a username and password to log in to the remote computer....

Home Automation

12th October 2016

Presence Detection using Bluetooth and WiFi

Home automation often relies on the ability to detect whether someone is present within the house. This information can then be used to perform different action as appropriate. Most people have a mobile phone...