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!

Integrating SnapCast into Volumio for the best multi-room system

In the previous document we already saw how to have Volumio 2 perfectly mounted on a Raspberry Pi and we discovered how simple it is and how ideal it is to think about using it as an interface for our home audio system (For example). In this post we will see how to install SnapCast in Volumio and be able to stream to other Raspberry Pi with a speaker and make an impressive cool background music!

Riding Volumio on Raspberry Pi

I wanted to bring you closer to all those who don't know it a very interesting project, it is Volumio, A magnificent player and manager of our music, A real gem! It can be used for different projects where you require music and want an amazing interface to listen to your best music; I personally use it for the background music 🙂

Raspberry Pi – Thermometer and home web control

In this document we will see the steps to follow to install temperature sensors on a Raspberry Pi, the creation of a database to store temperatures and a script that takes the temperature periodically. We will create a website that will allow us to obtain the current temperature as well as a graph with the temperature history. To curl the curl, We will put buttons on the website that will perform tasks such as turning on/off a thermostat!