When we are not at home, we like to have control over what moves at home. Therefore, in some rooms we have set up camera surveillance. These cameras will record video when there is movement in this room and none of us are home. At the same time, a push…
Category: Smart home
Alarm in freezer and refrigerator
When the temperature increases in the freezer or refrigerator, so it’s okay to get information about this. Then you can potentially save some food. We have installed a Agar temperature, humidity and pressure sensor in all refrigerators and freezers we have at home. These sensors give us continuous status on…
Anyone home?
Something we think is important to have control over in our smart home is if someone is at home. By knowing if there is someone in the house or not, you can automate many tasks around e.g. cleaning, alarm, light and heat. One of the easiest ways to automatically check…
Every smart home needs a brain
After testing slightly different solutions, the choice for our smart home solution fell on Home Assistant. Home Assistant is one of the world’s largest smart home integrators, with over 1700 integrations of devices and services. At the same time, it is based on open source, which makes the solution very…