Day: December 2, 2024

I recently bought an Aqara vibration sensor with the plan of affixing it to our dining room table for the purpose of setting up a flow in Homey such that if it’s nighttime and the table is bumped or tapped anywhere, the light would turn ON and stay on for […]

I recently realized that I needed to split out my home wifi network into two networks, a 2.4GHz network and a 5GHz network. The reason for that is that previously I only had one network that was 5GHz, but I came to realize that a bunch of smart home devices […]

I managed to get almost everything back online and functioning again after the chaos that ensued after my last update. In fact, for several devices, they’re actually working better than before because I was forced to dive in and take a closer look at them. For instance, I didn’t even […]

I’ve been a bit frustrated with some Homey flows (automation) recently because I’m not able to re-trigger them before the first automation has run its course. Let me give you a couple of examples of what I mean. One flow that we have goes something like this: if it’s night […]

A couple of months ago, I did something pretty silly. I split up my home wifi into separate 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz networks so that I could connect a couple of smart cameras. That move was the beginning of a very stressful and frustrating couple of weeks where I had to […]