Back in January I wrote about replacing the StartCom SSL cert I previously used on Durdle.com with a certificate from Let’s Encrypt. As I noted then, the certs generated by Let’s Encrypt come with a three month expiry. Today I received a reminder email from their expiry bot: Continue reading
Development
There are 28 posts filed in Development (this is page 2 of 6).
Impatience as Impetus: Building Alexa Sonos Integration
I’m impatient. I like new toys and new technologies and I generally don’t want to wait to play with them. We’ve been happy Sonos customers for years now, and Alexa customers since the UK launch. So when Sonos and Amazon announced a partnership to directly integrate the two in August last year, I was cautiously optimistic, albeit impatient to see it working. They promised a beta in 2016 and a launch in early 2017. I didn’t hear anything for the rest of that year, and wondered when we’d get an update on progress… Continue reading
Fibaro RGB Presets via SmartThings (and Alexa!)
Catchy title, right? I’m really enjoying working with the Fibaro kit. Based on their recent tweet it seems the feeling is mutual.
Using the FIBARO RGBW Controller with @smartthings is easy! Here’s what @hdurdle did: https://t.co/VeKfBsk8ED #SmartLighting
— Fibaro USA (@FibaroUS) January 19, 2017
Control of the colours via the smartphone app is all very well, but what I really wanted to do is get Alexa control of colour changing and presets. I’ve worked out a simple way to get this working – it’s not ideal, but it does work.
More on SmartThings and Domoticz
In a previous post I touched on the idea of using the SmartThings Hub to consume local APIs, specifically the json API exposed by my Domoticz install. I didn’t really show what Domoticz is, or how to find the details you need to configure the handler to talk to it.
Controlling Sonos from node.js
A break from endless talk of automated lights and LEDs, and talk of a different part of the home automation project: music. Specifically, whole house audio using Sonos and how to control it via an API. Continue reading