Smart Home Misadventures: Home Assistant
This week’s post will be about Home assistants. The open-source software that will take your smart home game to another level. Of course, that will also come with some learning curve, but hey, nothing comes easy in life after all 🤣
Smart home misadventures : Ecobee Smart Thermostat. Part 4
The final of the series. Too bad there isn’t much fanfare or explosive news as you expected. With that said, this will mainly be wrapping up the series, so if you have gotten this far might as well get to the end, am I right? 😜
Smart home misadventures : Ecobee Smart Thermostat. Part 3
Part 3 of the smart thermostat series. In this part, we will be setting up the device. Let’s dive into this.
Smart home misadventures : Ecobee Smart Thermostat. Part 2
Part 2 of the series about ecobee smart thermostat. We will be going into the installation process (well, connect the wires more like). Let’s take a look, shall we?
Smart home misadventures : Ecobee SmartThermostat. Part 1
Another week, another new series. This series will be about Ecobee smart thermostats. Why do I choose it, and maybe why probably you need one as well.
Smart home misadventure: Eufy battery-powered video doorbell. Part 3
The final part of the series. In this part, we will be setting up the doorbell unit and integrating that into the door lock.
Smart home misadventure: Eufy battery-powered video doorbell. Part 2
This is part 2 of the series, we will be setting up Homebase 2.
Smart home misadventure: Eufy battery-powered video doorbell. Part 1
Nowadays, it is hard not to find a home without a doorbell…oh wait, a smart doorbell with a camera built-in, be it Ring, Google Nest, Blink… Well, I have none of that. In this series, I will go through my thought process and why I picked the Eufy battery camera doorbell for my home. Let’s…
Smart home misadventures: Eufy Smart Lock (Wi-Fi) Part 3
The last part of this series is about my process of installing the Eufy Smart door lock. This time, we will be setting it up on the app and making sure everything is working correctly.
Smart home misadventures: Eufy Smart Lock (Wi-Fi) Part 2
This is part 2 of the Eufy smart lock series. This part will be the installation of the lock to the existing door.
Smart home misadventures: Eufy Smart Lock (Wi-Fi) Part 1
First post about smart home. This week, I will discuss why I decided to go with a smart door lock and the criteria. Let’s have a look, shall we?
How I configure my VLAN network
With the VLAN network created, the next step is to configure our network equipment to be able to utilize them. How I did do mine? Read on then.
How I set up VLAN for my home network with Pfsense.
Vlan, LAN with a V. What is that? Let’s find out, shall we?
How I set up my home network Part 2.
As promised, I will finish up my home network setup in this part 2. Enjoy!
How I set up my home network. Part 1
Another week, another late post as usual. Today I will be talking about how I set up my home network, or at least plan to. Read along and maybe you could learn more about what NOT to do 😜.