Software

Connecting the pieces together

After connecting everything on the different “physical” layers, it is time to have a look at how to connect all on the software side of things. This post shall describe my current setup, specifically the different software components and the protocols they rely on for the unipi hardware. This post is a part of a larger series of posts on my home automation setup. See the home automation overview post, to learn about the rationale and a description of the other posts! [Read More]

Hardware

Unipi units

In this post, I will give some more details about the rationale for the hardware that I had chosen for interpreting the input signals and controlling the outputs, specifically the unipi neuron series. Note that I am in no way affiliated with unipi, nor do I intend to do an in-depth description of their hardware. For more details from unipi themselves, have a look at the unipi website. This post is a part of a larger series of posts on my home automation setup. [Read More]