Category: Smart Home

I set up a DIY weather station in my garden that’s connected to Home Assistant and logs everything from wind speed and direction to rainfall and temperature. Why,

It’s not too far from being a full year since I started installing my self-hosted smart home kit, so I thought I’d give you a bit of an

If you’ve watched any of my DIY smart home series, you’ll know I’m somewhat militant with my approach to smart devices. I don’t do cloud hosted stuff –

Hi and welcome to episode 6 of my DIY smart home series. So far we have set up our main system using Home Assistant, connected Zigbee devices, created

One of the key advantages of internet connected smart home kit like Philips Hue or Samsung SmartThings is the ability to access and control your smart home tech

Hi and welcome to episode 4 of my DIY smart home series – last episode we covered a whole lot about Home Assistant, custom components and lighting controls,

Hi and welcome to episode 3 of my DIY smart home series, where I’m walking you through how to set up your own self-hosted, private, secure and feature-rich

Hi, and welcome to episode two of my DIY self-hosted smart home series. If you haven’t seen episode one I’ll leave a link in the cards above. I

I don’t know about you, but the idea that my lights or central heating might stop working because they can’t connect to the internet and phone home to