Home Center 3 scene activation triggered by a momentary switch

A very cool function of a number of Fibaro modules, such as the Dimmer 2 and (Double) Smart Module, is the scene activation functionality. With this option you can easily...

Home Center 3 migration. Big bang? Or manual?

The first question you will ask yourself is whether you want to migrate big bang or device by device. The latter is a time-consuming job, so you quickly think of...

Windows 10 Fibaro Home Center 2 and 3 app

While working from home for eight months now I wanted to toggle a light or run a scene from my Windows 10 laptop. After some Googling I didn’t find an...

Let Sonos wake you up with your favorite music and soft home lights!

Almost two years ago I wrote an article about my advanced wake-up routine. In this Fibaro Home Center 2 LUA scene I use the Philips Hue API to retrieve the...

Smart Energy Management: control your Bosch dishwasher!

In the Netherlands there is a law that if you generate more sustainable energy via solar panels than you consume from your energy supplier when the sun is not shining,...

The Button: Lua code samples to use with Home Center 2

Sometimes I want to manually push a switch to turn on a device or simply run a light scene. Sometimes manual operation is faster than automation. The first Fibaro Button...