Category: Smart Home

This is a full, copy-it-exactly guide to the wind sensor that now lives inside the aircon housing on the side of our condo in Manila. Total spend was about PHP 1,500 (roughly £20), the build is two wires and a 3D-printed bracket, and the reason it exists is that a weather forecast cannot tell you […]

SofaBaton X2 + Home Assistant: MQTT is a Disaster, Here’s How to Fix It So I’ve been doing a pretty major overhaul of my smart home setup, moving everything into Home Assistant as the “brain” and then exposing devices back to Apple Home via the HomeKit Bridge integration. Part of this involved getting my SofaBaton […]

You may have read my previous guide on how to setup and configure the Lightberry HD and come across a line where I said… If you are a 4K user, then you will want to purchase the 4K kit from Lightberry instead as it uses a different HDMI grabber. If you are thinking “Well, I […]

How we watch and use our TV has changed so much. I still remember the time of VHS and being grateful that I could even watch my favourite films at home. Now technology has advanced so far that watching a film at home can be more immersive than going to the cinema. Ambient light TVs […]

I recently purchased a Lightberry HD so that I could get the cool ambiilight colours with my TV. Despite there being information on the internet about how to set everything up, the information is fractured, brief, confusing, and a lot of times out of date. This guide aims to walk you through everything you need […]