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Amazon Echo Show 5 Unboxing

Amazon Echo Show 5 : Setup and Review

Alex ReidJune 27, 2019April 22, 2021
Blog / Smart Home / Tech News

Hey everyone, today is the release day of the Amazon Echo Show 5 and … well, I definitely had to buy one ( or two ) of them. The Amazon Echo family has already a lot of devices, including the Echo, Echo Dot, Tap, Echo Show and even some third […]

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Control RGB LED Strips with an Arduino

Control RGB LED Strips with Arduino – The Code

Alex ReidApril 22, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Hacks / Smart Home

As discussed in Controlling LED Strips – The easy way (Part 1), I need to control at least 7 different RGB LED Strips with an Arduino. Options with PWM or pre-built WiFi modules were a bit to long / costly. So why don’t we use the IR modules that comes with […]

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Control Sinope Thermostats with Python

Alex ReidApril 18, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Smart Home

4 years ago when we moved in our new house, the electricity bill was pretty high. So one of the first things we changed to reduce this was the thermostats. One of my requirements was to be able to control Sinope thermostats with Python (then Alexa, Google Assistant, Home Assistant). […]

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Home Assistant Complete Setup

Alex ReidApril 13, 2019May 19, 2020
Developments / Smart Home

Before starting to present the new features I add the my setup, let me show the Home Assistant Complete Setup I have. In the last years, I tried different things from a complete custom infrastructure built over a Django application I wrote, to HomeGenie then Home Assistant. HomeGenie has an […]

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