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...

Intelligent rain detection for your Gardena robotic lawnmower

The Gardena SILENO Robotic Lawnmowers have no rain sensor, they just work in the rain. Amazing technology but when there is a rainstorm it’s safer to park the mower. I...

Garden irrigation: One-click watering with predefined time-out

With Fibaro Home Center 2 I can use the Sprinkler Panel to fully automate my garden watering with no effort. But sometimes I don’t want to fully automate something. For...

See people at your door with Ring Doorbell and Home Center 2

The Ring Video Doorbell API is closed. So it is very difficult to integrate the doorbell into other systems. Also it is not possible to get a snapshot of the...

Hibernate your home with an advanced Home Center 2 scene to automatically turn off all lights (and save state)

After I build reliable presence detection I wanted to automatically turn off the lights when nobody is at home. I though it would be nice if the controller remembers the...

Presence detection with Unifi, Node-RED and Home Center 2

To my experience is presence detection with use of geofencing unreliable. Therefore I searched for an other rock solid solution to check the presence of our smartphone’s. I started with...