I’ve been tinkering with some Home Automation ideas for a while. THere’s a raft of things that I would like to get to, but time and budget limitations means I need to focus more on what I can do, than what I would like to do. However, one very simple, and cost effective, project that…
Wiki Category: Raspberry Pi
Project: Setting up HomeBridge
So, for my birthday, one of my brothers in law bought me an Arlec Grid Connect lighting strip. We installed it on the tv cabinet, with the idea of creating some ambient lighting when we’re watching TV. It changes colour, from a pure white, to a much warmer yellow/ orange, and it can be controlled,…
Project: Weather Logger
The next project that I wanted to work on was actually a very old project – but with one important change. I wanted to use a Pi with a Sense Hat attached to track the temperature in my shed, as well as other features of the environment. The Sense Hat is perfect for this kind…
Project: Timelapse Camera
One of the projects that I’ve been working on recently is the development of a time lapse camera. The idea behind this is that I wanted a way to document the work that I was doing in my shed, specifically on my layout table, in such a way as to be able to share time-lapses…