Automation – One Project At A Time
I recently purchased an Amazon Echo which is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Amazon Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. It’s the ‘more’ this article will explore. Unlike other services, Alexa exposes itself via the Alexa Skills Kit According to … Read more
The de facto standard for control in house is our PLC, things mainly happen autonomously, but when things don’t happen magically the tool of choice is a smart phone running NetIO. NetIO is a multi platform smartphone application, a generic remote controller for almost everything. It simply sends and reads strings over a network socket. … Read more
I recently had the pleasure to present an Azure ARM templates 101 to Melbourne Infrastructure Coders. I want to thank all of those who attended, David Lutz (@dlutzy) and Matthew Jones (@geekle) for facilitating and REA for the use of their facilities. My presentation, Automation and Scale On Azure – An Introduction To ARM Templates, … Read more
It has been almost 5 years of automating our house and during that time most systems have been automated successfully. These days it is about fine tuning and this is what this post is about. Our house is on the largish side and contains three Cisco Aironet AP’s to provide a unified hidden SSID. We … Read more
Landscaping our house has always been something on the cards for our family but it was placed on the back burner due to differing priorities. It wasn’t until our body corporate put this on the agenda did we get pretty serious about it. Whilst technically I find I can learn grasp most things life, design … Read more
Whilst very busy I host a handful of websites for friends and family from my garage fibre connection. The thing is my ISP doesn’t provide me an a static IP address. This is obviously an issue when hosting websites. This can be solved in one of two ways 1. obtain a static IP address either … Read more
Before we started landscaping I had grand plans for irrigation for our house. It was borne out of two desires. 1. With a growing busy family I can’t guarantee that our plants and lawn can be watered 2. Because I can What quickly became apparent on my home automation journey is that the more sensors … Read more
WARNING : Electricity can be lethal, this work should only be attempted by a licensed electrician On my list of things to automate around my house is HVAC . This article is describes how I hooked a multi-zone heating system up to my Homevision Pro automation controller. It does not cover all of the programming and smarts … Read more