10Mar
Remotely control a smart water valve
How can a water tap or water pipe be opened or closed remotely? Turn off the water and turn it on with a Wi-Fi valve.
Smart Home
13Sep
A cable finder that really works: Bosch D-Tect 120
Most cable finders are crap. That's why you find many of the devices at the grab boxes in the checkout area of hardware stores. With the Bosch D-Tect 120, I found a working cable tester for the first time.
20Feb
Opening doors and gates via HomePod: “You have to log in on your iPhone ” – “Someone wants to control security devices”.
I was quite surprised when I couldn't open our garage door with a voice command on the HomePod. What at first sounded like a configuration error has a security background.
16Feb
Configure Homematic module HmIP-MOD-HO in Yahka for Apple Homekit
With these Yahka adapter settings, you will be able to query and control your garage door opener using HMIP-MOD-HO even in Homekit and the Apple Home app.
16Feb
Controlling Hörmann garage door drives with integrable Homematic module
A new module from Homematic can be inserted directly into the operator of Hörmann garage doors to then control them conveniently in the smarthome.
23Jan
Homematic CCU HUE Log: „Please configure a valid user or remove user from configuration to generate a new one“
The Hue bridge user formerly used for Hue pairing is no longer valid. Now these log entries appear every 10 seconds. Unfortunately, there is no function in the CCU to cancel the pairing. With a SFTP client we fix the problem.
