Home Assistant Fixing slow Hue motion sensors in Home Assistant using Node-RED Currently Home Assistant only polls for Hue motion sensor data every 5 seconds which makes motion events slow and unusable for automatic lights and other automations. There was an open
Hosting My Unraid Home Server Setup I've been using Unraid for years now. Before that I was using just a plain Ubuntu Server OS on the same machine. Once I finally did the switch
Home Automation Hacking Hue remotes to trigger any automation with Node-RED The Hue Tap [https://amzn.to/2KCkFc6] and Wireless Dimmer Switches [https://amzn.to/2KEx7bd] are pretty awesome out of the box but did you know you can use it
Hosting Serve fast & secure websites from your home network using CloudFlare Why do I need CloudFlare? I already pay for a business internet connection to my house that gets 105mbps down and 25mbps up. Instead of paying for a VPS monthly
Home Automation Dim Home Assistant lights when Chromecast is playing Currently my favorite automation is the one that dims my living room lights when my Chromecast is detected playing something. It will also bring the lights back to their normal
Programming FastText encoding issues in Windows using PowerShell piping I wrote a pre-processing script in Python for cleaning up my data before giving it to FastText. I was running this in Windows and instead of writing the file output code I decided to use piping (via the > character). Anyways, I was having
ColdFusion ColdFusion executing compiled Python exe So at my current job we use ColdFusion on Windows servers and we didn't want to have to install Python in order to run our Python code (just another dependency we would have to support). Our solution was to compile our python
Security Cameras 4 years of using Xeoma security camera software This is my honest review of the Xeoma software [https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/] after using it for the last 4 years. Some people think that having a security setup
Home Automation Using Node-RED as the brains for Home Assistant instead of YAML Home Assistant is a great platform but writing automations in yaml can be a bit.. annoying. It especially gets bad once you reach around 4,000 lines in your automations.
Home Automation Enable/Disable Node-RED flows from the Home Assistant UI Automatic lights are nice but sometimes you would like to disable the automation. This can be achieved nicely by adding an input boolean to Home Assistant that lets you enable/disable the flow from the web UI (from any device). What you need * Node-RED
Home Automation Automatic lights in Home Assistant using Node-RED Motion sensor lights aren't anything new but with the advent of IOT devices they are a lot smarter, easier to configure, cost less money, completely wireless, and use a lot less power. In this post I will share how I use these
Home Automation Use Xeoma security cameras to trigger Home Assistant lights Want to get the motion status from your security cameras in Xeoma to display in Home Assistant? Or do you just want to convert HTTP Requests into MQTT messages? I'll show you the neat way that I accomplished this using Node-RED.
Getting Started Welcome to my blog I needed some place I could write articles about the various things I am into at the moment. At first I was considering building my own blogging application on top
