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  1. Smart home control from Garmin devices

    2024-04-29 08:34:00 UTC

    After smartening our car gates and enabling our phones and cars to control them, I wanted to add another access option: our Garmin watches and cycling computers. When going on a walk or bike ride, the phone is often already tucked away in some pocket or backpack, and the Garmin…

  2. Controlling our car gates with Apple HomeKit and CarPlay

    2023-11-05 11:05:00 UTC

    A previous post already describes how I have integrated our Ditec VIVAH car gates with a Shelly Plus 1 and openHAB. This enabled the control of the car gates from our Bticino home automation system and also from our mobile phones via the Shelly app. While the access via the…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…
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