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Accessing the inaccessible

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Updated January 2022 to include details on Cloudflare’s tunnel service, and Oracle’s free VM offering.

Home Assistant cloud goes paid

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The Home Assistant developers have just announced that the cloud services will shortly require payment. If you’re currently using the cloud services during ...

Presence detection updated

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A while back I covered how I was doing presence detection, and thought that since I’ve changed a few things I should update.

Turbulence ahead - fasten your seatbelt

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With 0.77 it looks like the new Home Assistant authentication platform will be mandatory. For almost everybody it’ll be a meh moment - ensure the legacy auth...

Sensative strips (guard) review

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I’ve had one Sensative strips guard installed since January 2017, and two more since October 2017, and thought it’s long past time I wrote a little about wha...