Posts tagged Smart Home
# AI-first engineering, technical leadership, and building things that ship
Escaping the Hue App: Running My Own Zigbee Network
A £20 USB dongle, Mosquitto, and Zigbee2MQTT versus the Philips Hue app. The hard requirement: my partner loses none of the features she actually uses.
Home Assistant on the Pi: Alerts, Not Automations
Installing Home Assistant properly, connecting Hive, and the design decision that shapes everything: the house tells me things, it does not do things.
One Kettle, Three Clients: Home Assistant, Open Source, and a Beta
The dead AppKettle is now a Home Assistant device, a public repo with a Docker image, and a phone app in closed beta. The interesting part was teaching three clients to share one TCP connection.
I am Building a Raspberry Pi Smart Home Hub
A single box that tracks my training, watches my finances, automates my home, and finally gives my kettle a permanent home. Here is what I am building and why.
I Built a Mobile App For My Kettle
After decoding the AppKettle protocol and building an MCP server, the obvious next step was a proper mobile app. Here is how I built it in React Native and what I learned along the way.
Reverse-Engineering a Dead Smart Kettle into an MCP Server
My AppKettle smart kettle stopped being smart when the company shut down. So I reverse-engineered their Android app, decoded the protocol, and wrote an MCP server for it.
6 posts tagged "Smart Home"