Spotify is one of the most common Music Services used in Europe. As Apple now also has support for the Dutch language on the HomePod I wanted to start using an HomePod in my office when working from home so I can stream music and just dont have to pause the music...
About a year ago Raspbian Bullseye was released, but as I was still running Buster and had no issues I kept running Buster. Last week I encountered some issues with the RUSTC package being outdated for an update of my HomeAssistant environment running Python 3.10.6....
How to upgrade Python venv to 3.8.6 If you are running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi with Python and manually installed it, you prob are running it in a Virtual Environment (venv) like me. Now with the release of HomeAssistant 0.116.0, there is a notification that...
Since LetsEncrypt doesnt support renewal of port 443 you can use the DNS-Challenge if you are not allowed or able to use Port 80. The renew function is not working, however if you own the DNS zone and can edit it is pretty easy to create a new certificate and use a...
How to upgrade Python venv from 3.5 to 3.7.3 If you are running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi with Python and manually installed it, you prob are running it in a Virtual Environment (venv) like me. Now with the release of HomeAssistant 0.94, there is a notification...
How does my Home Assistant app looks like? First of all when I started everything was in my configuration.yaml file. As I moved on i decided to split up the configuration to have a better overview and cleaner config when debugging. This is why i started using the:...
I came accross Home Assistant a few days ago and it looks like a nice Home Automation system, so... Lets try! At this point i'm running several apps like Hue, IFTTT, Stringefy to make my home smarter and respond on actions or triggers. As i now came accross Home...
We can use Siri for a lot of things on our Apple device, but you can also use Siri to control IoT things that dont have support for HomeKit! This can be done by using SiriControl! SiriControl is a Python script that runs on your Raspberry and polls your Gmail account...
As a fan of kickstarter projects and beers I came accross the BOx (Bottle Opener X). This is, as told by the developers, the world's first smart bottle opener. As a tech guy this sounds interesting so I decided to back this project. Finally! 15 november 2016, the day...
As i have equipped my home with some Hue lights, a NetAtmo and a few Raspberry Pi's I came accross IFTTT like a year ago. This made it really easy to connect stuff and do things based on some IF statement. Like IF it starts to rain change my Hue light bulb to blue....
In the Easter weekend I suffered some eye injury on both my left and right eye. My sight went fro 100% back to 5% on the left and right eye. From that day I knew it was going to be a long recovery with several surgery's. As a tech guy i already have some Smart Devices...