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Featured I wrote a PDF scan clean up & optimisation tool using Bash, GNU Parallel, ImageMagick convert and Python Tkinter
Anybody working with scanned documents faces this issue: Scanned PDFs are often low contrast, contain scanning artifacts such as book comb bindings, and are skewed and rotated somehow. This not only makes them difficult to...
Featured Meal Prep Timer App Launch – Free Download for Limited Time
I am excited to announce my first Android app launch on Google Play. As a meal prepper and home cook I wanted a convenient way to manage multiple timers easily in the kitchen. Existing apps...
Integrating Mi/QingPing BLE sensors into Home Assistant without a Gateway
Some Xiaomi temperature sensors advertise sensor data over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) packets. The data is encoded but we can decode it and make this data available in Home Assistant. A quick search revealed a...
How to use Tuya Convert to flash Tasmota to off-the-shelf smart home devices
Flashing Tasmota used to involve the arduous process of soldering fine wires to microscopic contact pads and using a USB to serial programmer board. With the advent of a growing home automation community and the...
How to configure FTP storage for Reolink IP Camera
With the ever increasing resolution of cameras, SD cards tend to run out of space very quickly and begin overwriting footage after only a few days to recover disk space. The onboard SD is therefore...
RF 433 MHz and BLE with OpenMQTTGateway and ESP8266 – Cheap Home Automation on a budget
Adding an RF gateway to your Home Assistant setup makes your setup incredibly versatile because it opens up a multitude of low-cost automation opportunities. This project enables you to interface your Home Assistant setup with...
Featured Monitor your Smart Home to improve reliability
As the complexity of your smart home increases, its important to implement some kind of system monitoring to ensure long term reliability and stability of the different components that make up the system. When integration...
Voice control for Home Automation
Voice control is an extremely powerful way to use technology. Every body can use it and there is next to no learning curve required. How does it work? When we ask our virtual assistants to...
A complete Guide to Motion Lighting in Smart Homes – Introducing AppDaemon
I have previously proposed a motion lighting implementation and discussed some of the problems Home Assistant's YAML based configuration creates for people who are used to the flexibility of fully fledged, battle-tested, object-oriented programming languages....
