Garden owners probably know the problem — you have set up a wonderful bed full of vegetables and/or fruits and a soon as the first fruits start growing, some uninvited visitors appear: SLUGS. They eat up everything or as least nibble on the fruits and everybody […]
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Being welcomed with an automated, individual smart good morning message every morning before leaving the house to work which includes information gathered by your smart home sounds super awesome to you? Then watch this video to get a better understanding of how it works. To get […]
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Today’s video will show you how I use excess solar energy to charge my car. The whole process is controlled via Home Assistant!
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Detect car in front of garage to block garage door from opening / closing in order to prevent damage from the car. The content mentioned in the video can be found here:
Water sprinkler
If you have a beautiful garden you want to keep plants healthy and strong, hence you probably need to water them during weeks of hot summer days. Irrigation is the answer for this. Irrigation can be performed manually by daily standing outside in your garden watering […]
High level architecture of vibration sensors attached to washer and dryer connected to ESP32 sending data to the cloud
I guess, you probably know the problem – you turn on your washing machine in the cellar, it tells you the program will run for approx. 2 hours and during that two hours you maybe get distracted by other things so that when the machine is […]
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Many of you might already have their home equipped with radio controlled shutters which is definitely very convenient – just push the button on your remote control and get the shutters opened, closed or stopped in between. Some of the remote controls also include a timer […]