homeassistant

So I wanted a simple wifi camera, for an outdoor project of mine.  The plan is to point it at the horizon, and then snap a photo every day at dawn.  In order to do this, I needed a cheap outdoor camera.  Coming in at $35, we have the Amiccom...

4 new devices this weekend got a DHCP IP from my servers. Some of them were wins, some not. First, the ugly.  I have a Rheem hot water heater. So obviously I purchased the wifi adapter for it.  After about 3-4 hours of guessing and decompiling...

So the very first problem I have here, is there is no way to run this thing distributed.  This is a major issue, as my setup is as follows: Main server (electra, a VM) runs the engine and talks directly to networked devices. A PI in the...

Up until now, I have been writing my own home automation engine from scratch.  This has served me, generally well, but, it has issues... First, lets discuss why I did what I did: No cloud.  Cloud evil.  No.  Bad. When I wrote gnhast,...