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RF 433 MHz and BLE with OpenMQTTGateway and ESP8266 – Cheap Home Automation on a budget

Daniel MasonDecember 18, 2020March 30, 2023

by Daniel MasonDecember 18, 2020March 30, 202302994

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

Daniel MasonNovember 3, 2020March 6, 2023

by Daniel MasonNovember 3, 2020March 6, 202302971

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...

Hardware

Guide: How to set up cheap and effective motion sensors for Home Assistant

Daniel MasonDecember 24, 2019March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonDecember 24, 2019March 5, 202301499

I have written in the past about my RF-based sensor setup, the gateway services, and custom HA components that support them. This post consolodates all these resources and fills in the gaps for an end...

Reviews

Home Automation IOT Best RF 433MHz Hardware Review

Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019June 27, 2023

by Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019June 27, 202301937

RF devices such as motion sensors or door sensors are much cheaper than their Wifi equivalent. This post combines a few reviews I have posted in the past to help you find the best hardware...

Hardware Home Assistant Integrations Smart Home

How to calibrate Home Assistant Sensors

Daniel MasonJanuary 10, 2019March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonJanuary 10, 2019March 5, 202302639

To calibrate my temperature and humidity sensors, I placed them inside a glass jar and calibrated each one to match their collective average value....

Self Hosting

Dockerised MQTT Audio Buzzer written in Python on Raspberry Pi

Daniel MasonJuly 24, 2018November 10, 2020

by Daniel MasonJuly 24, 2018November 10, 202002156

In this post, we are adding simple audio feedback to our home automation system via a small buzzer type speaker connected to the Raspberry Pi....

A complete Guide to Motion Lighting in Smart Homes – Introducing AppDaemon

Daniel MasonMay 17, 2018March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonMay 17, 2018March 5, 202302793

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....

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Setting up basic motion activated Lighting with Home Assistant automation

Daniel MasonMarch 20, 2018March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonMarch 20, 2018March 5, 202302675

This post explains how to set up motion activated lighting that stays on for as long as there is activity in a room....

Home Assistant Integrations

Setting up motion sensors as binary sensors in Home Assistant

Daniel MasonMarch 19, 2018March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonMarch 19, 2018March 5, 202303356

This post explains how to set up motion activated lighting that stays on for as long as there is activity in a room....

Home Assistant Integrations Self Hosting

Dockerising the RF to MQTT gateway

Daniel MasonMarch 10, 2018March 5, 2023

by Daniel MasonMarch 10, 2018March 5, 202302291

Let's create a MQTT to RF gateway image and use it to control cheap RF devices in our home automation set up!...

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RF 433 MHz and BLE with OpenMQTTGateway and ESP8266 – Cheap Home Automation on a budget

Featured Monitor your Smart Home to improve reliability

Guide: How to set up cheap and effective motion sensors for Home Assistant

Home Automation IOT Best RF 433MHz Hardware Review

How to calibrate Home Assistant Sensors

Dockerised MQTT Audio Buzzer written in Python on Raspberry Pi

A complete Guide to Motion Lighting in Smart Homes – Introducing AppDaemon

Setting up basic motion activated Lighting with Home Assistant automation

Setting up motion sensors as binary sensors in Home Assistant

Dockerising the RF to MQTT gateway

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