Tagged: IFTTT

Aug 2021

use the smart device app even if you use an automation platform

Your smart bulbs, switches and door bell all come with a useful manufacturer’s app – over time you’ll accumulate many such apps. While Home Assistant might make them redundant, here are couple of tips...

home & garden / monitoring at home

Jun 2020

T4EU1C and Home Assistant

a 3-gang wall switch for your home automation – using eWelink, T4EU1C and Home Assistant I got to a point where I had plenty of ‘smart’ lights and gadgets but few switches. But then...

monitoring at home

May 2020

take your D-Link DCS-D150 out of the cloud and into Home Assistant

I wouldn’t especially recommend the D-Link DCS-D150 motion sensor but it does have some features that had me buy it. Firstly it plugs into a wall socket above a worktop so it can sense...

monitoring at home

Apr 2020

control a sonoff switch using eWelink and Home Assistant – without IFTTT or firmware flashing

In this project I control a Sonoff light switch using Home Assistant. You can do the same with other Sonoffs. The switch shown here is the T4EU1C wall plate switch. It works over wifi...

monitoring at home

Apr 2020

control a sonoff switch from Home Assistant using IFTTT

The regular way to switch a Sonoff relay is to use the official ewelink app. Other ways require you to ‘flash’ the Sonoff device with Tasmota or ESPHome software and then control it with...

monitoring at home

Mar 2020

send sensor data from Home Assistant to a spreadsheet

The Home Assistant dashboard (aka ‘Lovelace’) is very good at displaying live sensor data as well as historic sensor data. The display below shows a ‘just now’ reading of the sun and also a...

monitoring at home

Nov 2019

the need to use a home automation ‘platform’

In the beginning there was the smart bulb that changed colour and convinced me that here was something trivial and fanciful. Today I’m surprised by the usefulness of the smart gadgets on sale. There...

home & garden / monitoring at home

Oct 2019

project: oil tank level sensor

make a heating oil tank level sensor that’s more useful than anything you can buy measures oil level in any unit – litres, gallons or days until I need to refill the tank displays...

Tagged: IFTTT

use the smart device app even if you use an automation platform

T4EU1C and Home Assistant

take your D-Link DCS-D150 out of the cloud and into Home Assistant

control a sonoff switch using eWelink and Home Assistant – without IFTTT or firmware flashing

control a sonoff switch from Home Assistant using IFTTT

send sensor data from Home Assistant to a spreadsheet

the need to use a home automation ‘platform’

project: oil tank level sensor

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