Mojo – Blog https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/ Technology, adventures, experiences Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:47:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Connecting Home Assistant with Hue to Enhance Your Smart Home https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connecting-home-assistant-with-hue-to-enhance-your-smart-home/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connecting-home-assistant-with-hue-to-enhance-your-smart-home/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:30:59 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=1720 Hello, dear smart home enthusiasts! Today, I want to share my journey from Homebridge to Home Assistant and how I connected Home Assistant with Hue. I used Homebridge for a long time, and it met many of my needs. However, over time, I realized that its functionality was too limited for my growing smart home… Read More »Connecting Home Assistant with Hue to Enhance Your Smart Home

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connecting-home-assistant-with-hue-to-enhance-your-smart-home/feed/ 0 Installing Home Assistant VM on Proxmox https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-vm-on-proxmox/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-vm-on-proxmox/#comments Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:20:23 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=1740 Installing Home Assistant on Proxmox as a virtual machine (VM) offers a powerful and flexible solution for managing your smart home. Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform, allows you to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. This is particularly useful if you want to run different applications and services in isolation from each… Read More »Installing Home Assistant VM on Proxmox

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-vm-on-proxmox/feed/ 1 Installing Home-Assistant on Raspberry Pi Made Easy! https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-made-easy/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-made-easy/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:44:35 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=1463 Home-Assistant is an open-source smart home software that allows us to easily integrate many different devices. All we need to do is set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi and connect our household appliances to it. With the right configuration, we can analyse, control, and schedule everything at home with our smartphone. The first… Read More »Installing Home-Assistant on Raspberry Pi Made Easy!

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/installing-home-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-made-easy/feed/ 2 Install Homebridge on the Raspberry Pi, it’s easy! https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-homebridge-on-the-raspberry-pi-its-easy/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-homebridge-on-the-raspberry-pi-its-easy/#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:54:34 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=846 There are many tutorials on how to install Homebridge “manually”. Or how to manually maintain the system step by step. With almost every update of plugins. In the beginning, I was wondering if the world needed another tutorial on how to set up Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi. But I spent a lot of time… Read More »Install Homebridge on the Raspberry Pi, it’s easy!

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-homebridge-on-the-raspberry-pi-its-easy/feed/ 2 Connect Homebridge to Hue and expand your smart home https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connect-homebridge-to-hue-and-expand-your-smart-home/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connect-homebridge-to-hue-and-expand-your-smart-home/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:47:20 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=1312 The original reason for me to set up a Homebridge was the fact that I registered the cheap Osram Smart Plugs on my Philips Hue, thought to myself “Good plan!”. Unfortunately, the plugs were not displayed in HomeKit or forwarded by Hue. So the Hue had to be connected to Homebridge. So that I can… Read More »Connect Homebridge to Hue and expand your smart home

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/connect-homebridge-to-hue-and-expand-your-smart-home/feed/ 7 Install Node-Red in parallel with Homebridge https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-node-red-in-parallel-with-homebridge/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-node-red-in-parallel-with-homebridge/#respond Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:27:38 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=837 If you have, like me, already a Raspberry Pi with a Homebridge running, it is a good idea to install Node-Red on the same Raspberry. Node-Red is a real help for more sophisticated automations. Then there is also the possibility, for example, to create physically non-existent switches in HomeKit directly to control devices via Node-Red,… Read More »Install Node-Red in parallel with Homebridge

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/install-node-red-in-parallel-with-homebridge/feed/ 0 Control Volumio with HomeKit using Node-Red https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/control-volumio-with-homekit-using-node-red/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/control-volumio-with-homekit-using-node-red/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:28:55 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=767 We rely on Siri as the voice interface in our smart home. This has advantages, but also disadvantages and limitations. For example, I was not able to control Volumio via HomeKit or to adjust the volume or change the radio station. But now I have done it with the help of Node-Red! Now I am… Read More »Control Volumio with HomeKit using Node-Red

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]]> https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/control-volumio-with-homekit-using-node-red/feed/ 2 Covid-19 county news as push notifications to your smartphone https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/covid-19-county-news-as-push-notifications-to-your-smartphone/ https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/en/covid-19-county-news-as-push-notifications-to-your-smartphone/#respond Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:10:10 +0000 https://mojo.lichtfreibeuter.de/?p=677 In the actual situation, we (my wife and I) are interested in the current corona case numbers in our county. Until now, we have always done this via the website of the RKI. Since this can be very tedious, I decided to automate the process and send push notifications. I would like to describe in… Read More »Covid-19 county news as push notifications to your smartphone

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