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If you've been thinking about building a smart home system, you're facing two major paths:
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Purchase the ready-to-use systems like Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, or Samsung Smart Hub etc.
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Build your own home automation system using open source system like Home Assistant or openHAB etc.
Starting a smart …
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In a previous post, we have gone through the procedures of setting up the development environment for Angular and .NET using Sublime Text 4. Being a more superior text editor than VS Code, Sublime Text 4 weighs more on text editing than usual IDE features, however this does not mean it lacks the core feature of a …
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Recently I've been investigating on setting up DIY private cloud infrastructure at home. Particularly I am looking at the following three options to start with:
My goal is pretty simple:
- To utilize my existing computing hardware: 1 intel NUC and 1 raspberry pi 3B
- High availability
- Easy …
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If you live in the urban area and need to pick up someone regularly, e.g. a family member off work or kid from school, a simple alarm on your smart phone might work out for you but not the best solution. With the help of home assistant, we can make it much smarter by utilizing real-time traffic information and home …
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While working on a fullstack project, Visual Studio Code has been the top pick for many developers. It's open source, feature-rich, and community-driven. However you could also find lots of complaints about slow, not responding, and cumbersome of VSCode all around. For example of my sample project Angular+dotnet, I …
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