Monitoring a specific date

In this article we will see something different and that we can give it the use we need, and it is nothing more than being able to monitor a day or a specific date and let us know as the day approaches. An ideal and practical example, Well, to have centralized when the licenses or maintenance of each software/hardware that we have acquired expire, For example; or, My birthday, the 12 and congratulate 😉 me

Controlling the blinds with Shelly 2.5 and Home Assistant

In this post we are going to see how to control the blinds of our home or office, we start with traditional PVC blinds (in my case) to which we want to put a motor to automate something else and make a Smart Home. It will be super simple, We'll do it all with a Shelly 2.5 to control the upload or download wirelessly, and all integrated with Home Assistant!

Matterwiki, setting up a Wiki for our company

Starting from the good objective of each one (and each company), We know that we have to have documented everything we can, avoiding having it in our head or when a technician leaves us do not leave us with vital information, yes or yes we all have to document. So what I said, I leave you Matterwiki, which is nothing more than a super simple Wiki, we can use it as a repository and store all our How To's, Tricks, Notes…

Monitoring the status of our Xiaomi Mi Vacuum robot vacuum cleaner in Grafana

If we have the wonderful and all-powerful Xiaomi robot vacuum cleaner and you want to visualize its data in a Grafana dashboard, This is your post! In it we will see how to connect to the vacuum cleaner, how we can ask you questions and obtain all kinds of interesting data, and then store it in a MySQL database that we will attack with Grafana to visualize and process these metrics.

Integrating Sonoff Bridge RF with Hassio – Home Assistant and testing a magnetic door/window sensor

Start the march! The first step in my case (after having Home Assistant installed), will centralize and receive all radio frequency signals with the fabulous Sonoff Bridge RF; and then send the sensor data to the MQTT Broker that we will mount in Home Assistant. That is, the Sonoff Bridge in this case will listen by RF and transmit by Wifi to the Hassio any data that interests us.