by Bram | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog, Homeautomation, Linux
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...
by Bram | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Homeautomation, Raspberry Pi
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...
by Bram | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Homeautomation, Linux
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:...
by Bram | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Homeautomation, Linux, Raspberry Pi
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...
by Bram | Jun 7, 2017 | Blog, Homeautomation, Homebridge, Homekit, Linux, Raspberry Pi
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...
by Bram | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Homeautomation, Mobile
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,...
