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Seeing a reboot or restart of the OmniLinkBridge this morning. Note: here using a microfirewall (OpenWRT) connected to the network port of the OmniPro 2 panel and getting a disconnect from the OmniLinkBridge HA add on causing TTS events to trigger. (IE: garage door open event). Looking at...

Status February 27, 2024 - Hardware - Lenova Tiny M900 - 32Gb RAM - 250 Gb SSD Software - Base OS Ubuntu 22.04 Mono Homeseer 4 - grown to 1.6Gb CumulusMX - grown to 6Gb Oracle Virtual Box - grown to around 100Gb Home Assistant VB - grown from 4Gb to 60Gb - 8Gb of RAM Windows 7 32bit VB -...

Here still using Homeseer TTS (collect voice fonts here) and Alexa for TTS. Recently read this: $13 voice assistant for Home Assistant Just purchased two of the speaker development kits. Looks to be plug and play. Will detail installation here in this new blog.

Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands "Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people know the story...

It appears that the Home Assistant MyQ integration is no longer working. I have patched a couple of Python scripts to get it working over the last month and it did work for a few days. I have always had issues with the use of MyQ and cloud connectivity. Initially it was helping a neighbor set...

WGL Designs W800RF32 Here still using the W800RF32 with Homeseer. I am running Homeseer 4 and Home Assistant on an Ubuntu 22.04 computer. Homeseer 4 is running on native Ubuntu 22.04 and Home Assistant is running in a Virtual Box. The hardware is an IBM Lenova Tiny M900. I am going to...

On this day in history, August 11, 1964, Beatles' iconic film 'A Hard Day's Night' is released. 'A Hard Day's Night' will mark its 60th anniversary in 2024. The film received two Oscars during the 37th Academy Awards (1965), which honored movies from 1964. "A Hard Day’s Night" won an Oscar...

Here since the 1990's always fascinated with Lightning. Used a 1-Wire lightning sensor back then with Homeseer 1. (late 1990's - early 2000's) Still have the sensor and it still works fine. LD3-R2 Lightning Detector - How it works connected to a Mideon Temp05/08 This blog is about Lightning...

Securing the Smart Home Network: The Risks of the IoT Zachary Comeau Cybersecurity professionals say the Internet of Things is more like the Internet of Threats. Here's why. The Internet of Things (IoT) has exploded in recent years as user demand for connectivity and remote management have...

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Built one using an RPi a few years back. Works fine today. How to use a AS3935 Lightning sensor with a Raspberry Pi Reference: AS3935 Franklin Lightning sensor Tasmota view: and in MQTT topic when an Event occurs...

Noticed recently here that HA #2 Virtual Box running on Ubuntu 22.04 host kept running of memory and rebooting itself. IE: would run up to 100% in less than an hour then reset itself. HA #1 running many add ons averages 8% utilization. HA #2 Add ons used: HACS==> Add ons 1 - Advanced SSH...

This is a redo / rebuilt of a Tasmota Sonoff Basic generation 1 that has been working now for 3+ years. This works fine with the Tasmota web interface, Homeseer 3-4 and Home Assistant. Note with the Sonoff Basic R1 cut the 120VAC traces of the board with a small saw. You need some soldering...

This is a cross post from Homeseer. Here have always tinkered with Weather Stuff - 1 - AAG 1-Wire weather station in the 1990's 2 - Davis Instruments Weather station in the 2000's 3 - NOAA - weather map downloading - RPi and SDR 4 - Lightning sensor - RPI project References: BH1750...

Installed / tested 30th of March, 2022 2000 c This are known as Virage or generic KS-7012. Hardware required / used (purchased from Amazon) for JTAG 1 - DSD TECH USB to TTL Serial Adapter with FTDI FT232RL Chip Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7 and Mac OS X $12.49 USD * note this is my...

Might change from my morning 7 shots of espresso to a new need. From the Wiki Turkish coffee is a style of coffee prepared in a cezve using very finely ground coffee beans without filtering. Preparation Turkish coffee is very finely ground coffee brewed by boiling. Any coffee bean may be...

Here have been running 3 Kodi boxes with little mini S912 TV Boxes using CoreElec custom OS. I have had no issues here relating to playback / streaming of 4K files. The boxes are running Kodi 18.X and have not been able to upgrade to Kodi 20.X due to S912 (octocore) hardware limitations...

New version of PFSense + came out this morning. Will share my experience here. Currently running three boxes here with PFSense +. (Jetway and Qotom mini multiple port boxes). Last year moved rack (server rack) installed boxes to telco wall and switched / upgraded GPS / TTS hardware (Sure to...

I was a ham operator in the 1960's and thinking of getting back to it..... Installed this software on one of my tabletop touchscreens this week....runs great... This Raspberry Pi HamClock is Perfect for Amateur Radio Enthusiasts The tabletops here are modded Intel based touchscreens...