After long time wating, my google coral usb accelerate finally arrived. A quick glance of my old setup for object detection using security cameras. (ref: Complete Home Automation Setup) An Intel NUC i5 bare box running frigate docker CPU detector Black Synology w/ DSM 7.1 running on a i5 custom build box with 6 …

Maybe you still have one of these old foscam camera laying around and collecting dust? You don't really have to break your bank account to purchase those fancy security camera to enjoy motion detection and more advanced features with home assistant. In this article, I am going to show you how to re-use these old …

In this post, I will cover two topics: Comparison of TP-LINK HS200 smart wifi switch and GOSUND SWS5 smart wifi switch How to control humidity with nest thermostat and smart wifi swtich 1. Comparison of TP-LINK HS200 smart wifi switch and GOSUND SWS5 smart wifi switch Recently I've purchased both a TP-LINK Kasa smart …

If you've been thinking about building a smart home system, you're facing two major paths: Purchase the ready-to-use systems like Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, or Samsung Smart Hub etc. Build your own home automation system using open source system like Home Assistant or openHAB etc. Starting a smart …

In a previous post, we have gone through the procedures of setting up the development environment for Angular and .NET using Sublime Text 4. Being a more superior text editor than VS Code, Sublime Text 4 weighs more on text editing than usual IDE features, however this does not mean it lacks the core feature of a …

Recently I've been investigating on setting up DIY private cloud infrastructure at home. Particularly I am looking at the following three options to start with: k3s microk8s docker swarm My goal is pretty simple: To utilize my existing computing hardware: 1 intel NUC and 1 raspberry pi 3B High availability Easy …

If you live in the urban area and need to pick up someone regularly, e.g. a family member off work or kid from school, a simple alarm on your smart phone might work out for you but not the best solution. With the help of home assistant, we can make it much smarter by utilizing real-time traffic information and home …

While working on a fullstack project, Visual Studio Code has been the top pick for many developers. It's open source, feature-rich, and community-driven. However you could also find lots of complaints about slow, not responding, and cumbersome of VSCode all around. For example of my sample project Angular+dotnet, I …

With the release of Home Assistant Core 2021.8, we no longer need grafana or influxdb to view real-time or historical energy usage in your home. I used to have a complex setup of a couple of separate docker containers only to achieve some simple energy monitoring tasks: Influxdb container to store timed data from home …