Archive for the 'Home Automation' Category

Stop Recommending Home Assistant for Home Automation

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

This post expands and refines on a comment I made in response to a blog post by Rob Dodson in which he explains why he ripped out a $9,000 automated home lighting system. His post centers around the Z-Wave device protocol, but touches upon Home Assistant, a popular open source control center for home automation […]

Raspberry Pi-Powered Time Machine Backups – No Really, Do It This Way. The Other Ways Are Wrong.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

TL;DR – If you want to set up a Raspberry Pi and a hard drive to act as a network Time Machine server, use Samba and ext4. If you find a post on some site that tells you to install netatalk and hfsprogs, flip off your monitor, close the tab, and Google again. A long, […]