More tinkering

I've been tinkering again since it's too cold lately to go out in the garage and do my woodworking. I've been exploring all of my smart devices in the house to figure out how I might be able to do them better. I got into a thing called home assistant which is a program that runs on a raspberry pi in your home. It acts as a hub to control all your smart devices. The nice thing is I can also flash open source firmware into a lot of my smart switches which allows me to control them with home assistant without going through the cloud or out to the Internet at all. Home Assistant has a easy to use web interface and you can create great dashboard to control your smart switches, lights and even the garage door.