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.
Tag: Smart-Home
11Apr
How to: Where to mount carbon monoxide detector? Ceiling, wall or floor?
Carbon monoxide detectors are at least as important as fire or smoke detectors and protect our lives. But once you have bought a suitable device, the question arises as to where to hang it most sensibly. m Internet you will find many half-truths. Reason enough to shed light on the matter once and for all.
26Oct
LED lighting in furniture made smart with Osram Lightify or Philips Hue
For a long time, I was looking for a way to integrate my LED strips into my Smarthome, which are permanently installed in the living room cupboards. Now I have not only found a solution that works, but also a solution that really excites me and that I am thrilled about for a long time to come: I control my LED cabinet lighting with a Zigbee LED controller via the Philips Hue system. Not so easy to connect a normal LED strip to the proprietary Philips Hue system, but possible.
13Feb
Restore SD card images reliably with graphical user interface
If you want to restore a previously saved image of an SD card, you can often use various command line tools such as the terminal. Restoration can easily become a pain: The progress of the recovery is not displayed or the recovery is simply unreliable - the SD card in Raspberry Pi still doesn't want to boot at the end. A new tool for Mac, Windows and Linux with graphical user interface solves the problem: Etcher.
