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...
Advanced wake-up routine wake-up with Home Center 2 and Philips Hue
In our bedroom we integrated a Philips Hue lightstrip in the ceiling and use this with the Philips Hue app as a wake-up light. It beautifully fakes a sunrise in...
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