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Making our Doorbell Smart
2023-02-01 17:09:00 UTC
After smartening up our entrance gates, the next thing on my to-do list was our doorbell. The conventional doorbell was barely audible on the first floor of the house, and not at all in the garden. So, my goal for this project was to integrate the doorbell with openHAB, and…
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Ditec VIVAH car gates, the Shelly Plus 1 and openHAB
2023-01-23 20:50:00 UTC
And here comes my next home automation project: integrating our entrance gates, controlled by a Ditec VIVAH unit, to be able to operate them from our BTicino wall switches and mobile phones. To achieve that, we’ll use a Shelly Plus 1 to integrate the gates into our openHAB home automation…
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Integrating a Weather Station with BTicino shutters
2023-01-14 09:57:00 UTC
In this post I’ll describe my latest home automation project: installing an Ecowitt weather sensor array and using our new openHAB home automation server to integrate it with our BTicino system to bring up the window shutters when the wind gets too strong
Our window shutters are quite fragile and…
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Adding Alexa to our BTicino system
2023-01-01 06:45:21 UTC
As mentioned in my previous posts on home automation, adding voice assistant capability to our BTicino MyHome automation system was one of my goals for its modernization. We already have been using Amazon’s Alexa for some time to control the Sonos sound systems we have in most of our rooms…
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Expanding our BTicino system with openHAB and Shelly
2022-12-29 16:47:00 UTC
I am still continuing my efforts to understand and expand our BTicino MyHome automation system. So far I’ve been able to move the system to software-based configuration and replaced our broken F420 scenario module with the more advanced MH202 scenario programmer, now I am looking at expanding the system and…