I’ve recently hit on a problem in which we have an issue with our oil heating back in the UK while we’re spending by far the bulk of our time in Spain. Despite everything being turned off (hot water off, heating set to OFF – i.e. standby) we discovered thanks…
Month: July 2024
AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red
AWS Polly is great for adding speech to Raspberry Pi and similar, especially with the “neural” enhancement. Regular readers will know that for years I was a great fan of using Ivona speech on my Raspberry Pi. In Node-Red I used the free Ivona service to provide high quality speech in Node-Red at the heart of…
Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more…
Not sure why two companies I know, decided to introduce water leak sensors in the middle of summer – but I’m happy to do a quick write-up – as it happens I’ve just recently refitted a hot water tank complete with rather large calcium filter and I’m not 100% sure…
And Now – HA TV Lighting Automation
Just a quick one – Having set up all the lighting in Home Assistant including the living room with the TV – my wife had the great idea of moving everything around and I find our chandelier and cupboard lighting totally destroys my TV viewing at night – SO the…