Andrew is a professional software developer based in Florida. Interests include home automation, woodworking, real-time strategy games, guitar and audio production.
Last Watch is a standalone application for creating if-then automations based on AI object detection. Last Watch comes with a few automations out of the box which allow you to do simple things like send a Telegram photo message if a person is detected on camera. The list of integrations
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The preferred method to install Last Watch on Ubuntu is directly from the source code. Installing from source makes it much easier to upgrade in the future by just pulling the latest code and rebuilding. Alternatively, you can install using the official releases. For a full walkthrough on setting up
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This guide will introduce the key concepts and features of Last Watch by walking through a very basic setup. More advanced features will also be introduced at the end of this guide. If you have not installed Last Watch yet, please refer to the setup guide. 1. Detection Profiles The
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Last Watch is an all-in-one tool for creating If-Then automations based on AI computer vision.
This guide will walk through the entire setup of Last Watch on Windows Server 2019. These steps should also work for Windows 10. 1. Dependencies The only dependency to install first is Docker, which will act as the host for Last Watch. Install Docker Desktop on WindowsHow to install Docker
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Here is a quick helper for Node-RED to fetch the Home Assistant user who triggered a state change...
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In this post I will share how I set up push notifications for my home security camera by integrating Home Assistant with Blue Iris. Motion events from the camera are filtered by locally-processed computer vision so that alerts are only generated by objects such as cars or people. I will
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In this post, I will explain some of the hidden benefits of using a reverse proxy to keep local connections to Home Assistant unencrypted. Importantly, I will explain in simple terms what a reverse proxy is, and what it is doing under the hood. Finally, I will show how I
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This week I checked off another goal for my Home Assistant setup – automated backups! Once a week, my entire Home Assistant VM is backed up to my Synology NAS which is protected with RAID 1. This setup gives me good protection against all hardware and software failures, and it gives
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This post will show how I set up CPU Temperature monitoring for Home Assistant running on a virtual machine in Proxmox. Virtualized hardware does not report temperatures, so I used a python script running on the host system to periodically send the CPU temp to Home Assistant. Last week, I
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10/25/20 Update - The isScreenOn property has been changed to screenOn in later versions of Fully Kiosk. Check your JSON output for the correct name In this post I'll show how I exposed the backlight of my crappy old Android tablet as a Light in Home Assistant using
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Here's a quick and dirty build for organizing a messy drawer. The bottom is made from a 1/4" birch panel that I had left over from another project. The sides are made from 1/4" MDF. I started by measuring the inside of the existing drawer. To make the