Smart Home 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
Smart Home Replacing our heating controls In this post and video, I'm replacing all our underfloor heating controls with a smart system from Heatmiser.
Technology Setting up my new Synology DS1621+ In this video I'm going to be unboxing and setting up my new Synology 1621+ NAS server.
Technology My home office audio setup Since I started working from home last March I've been struggling to find the perfect audio setup for my home office. However, I think I've found it!
Videography & Photography Choosing a camera In this post I’m looking at how I researched which camera to buy for my new video projects.
Technology Stream Deck for Developers I've always been keen on creating shortcuts and macros for everything and this is how I'm using a Stream Deck XL to make things even easier.
Smart Home 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.
Trains Hey Siri, when's the next train? Earlier today I posted a tweet showing off a little shortcut I've made for Siri that can easily tell me when the next train departs a station. A few Twitterers have asked for a copy of the shortcut so I thought I'd better write a quick