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5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

https://youtu.be/S9_aphwvuiM For the last month of the Year, Home Assistant is delivering yet another version packed with new features. From Matter to Local Calendar, without forgetting State colors, a lot

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Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale !

Today, AliExpress is running their single's day (November 11th) and that gives us, smart home enthousiasts, a lot of great deals to add new devices and projects to our houses.

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Make your Garage Door smarter with Home Assistant

In this project, we'll see how to control our garage door with Home Assistant and ESPHome for less than 20$ !

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Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

Prime Day is finally here ! Most of us are waiting the biggest Amazon event since July.Everyone knows that we can find great deals in tech stuff, but it's also

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5 New Features on Home Assistant 2022.12 !

By Alex ReidDecember 7, 2022December 7, 2022
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Top 10 deals for your Smart Home on 11.11 Sale !

By Alex ReidNovember 10, 2022November 10, 2022
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Make your Garage Door smarter with Home Assistant

By Alex ReidAugust 6, 2022November 29, 2022
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Amazon Prime Day Canada : Deals for Makers and Geeks !

By Alex ReidOctober 14, 2020April 22, 2021

How to control RGB LED matrix with an Arduino

Alex ReidJuly 30, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Hardware / Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtIWN5SJDYo In this tutorial, you’ll see how to display text on a 32×8 RGB LED Matrix (built with WS2812B) within few minutes. This will let you control an RGB LED matrix with an Arduino. If you build something with a similar setup, please comment and share your projects ! Please […]

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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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How to import GitHub repository into GitLab

Alex ReidJune 24, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Tutorials

This How-to explains within few minutes how to import GitHub repositories into GitLab.The integration is easy and the GItLab’s CI is simple to use.

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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Unboxing

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Starter Kit Unboxing

Alex ReidMay 28, 2019April 22, 2021
Hardware / Unboxing

Hey everyone, I just got my brand new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ starter Kit that I got from Canakit. Since I have a lot of things going on my Home Assistant installation, I needed a small upgrade, which will be done with that small computer. Take a look at the […]

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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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Control RGB LED Strips with an Arduino

Control RGB LED Strips with Arduino – The Hardware

Alex ReidApril 15, 2019April 22, 2021
Developments / Hacks

Over the years I bought a lot of LED strips to add almost everywhere … But since I didn’t want to have 44-keys remotes at each corners of my house and that I also want to have them available on power outage, I came up with a different plan to […]

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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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