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Thin Client Home Automation

I’ve been playing a bit with Home automation for the last year. It started when I bought a Sonoff to interface with the garage door. At the time I just wanted to be able to open and close the door from my phone and know if I had left it open while I was at work.

Well it snow balled from there.

I discovered that Homebridge was the answer to link my sonoff garage door opener to my iPhone. Soon after that I bought a Mirabella Smart Switch that I flashed with Tasmota. and a pile of other devices. But I tired quickly of Homebridge lacking a GUI, so I found HOOBS. I couldn’t justify buying a new AppleTV to allow automation, so to start with I just programmed my posse of Tasmotized Sonoffs and other smart devices to turn on and off using their own timers.

And then I bought a motion sensor which I of course tasmotized.

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Thin Client NAS

Inside the HP T5540

Since moving to Mildura I have slowly been reassembling my “toys” that were packed away in boxes to move up here.

When I was in Horsham, I used to have an old  MacBook running 10.6.8 OSX Server. I used it for storage, remote desktop and web hosting. Later versions of MacServer became less appealing when SQL server was dropped for PostgreSQL, so it just stayed that way.

I no-longer host my own websites or need to remote desktop home from work, so all i need was storage. A simple NAS would do this. Continue reading “Thin Client NAS”