Smart Home

Posts about my project making our new home smart.

11 Apr 2022 • 4 min read

Raspberry Pi & Home Assistant: From SD card to SSD

One of the neatest ways to run Home Assistant is to pop it onto a Raspberry Pi. The tools available for this are excellent and the ecosystem is rich with documentation and addons. I've been running my Home Assistant installation from a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 128GB

28 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

Replacing our heating controls

In this post and video, I'm replacing all our underfloor heating controls with a smart system from Heatmiser.

6 Mar 2021 • 8 min read

Installing a smart doorbell

I've been researching smart doorbells for the last few weeks - here's what I came up with. Join me while I install the Netatmo Smart Video doorbell.