My Blog Posts
This blog site presents posts related to a number of personal projects I am undertaking – if you want an overview of these projects, go to the Projects Page first.
Home Assistant Remote Control For My Samsung TV and Sonos – Version 2
In a previous post I described the build of a remote control for my Samsung TV and Sonos sound bar from within Home Assistant. I have received considerable interest in this post and many questions. If you have not read this post, I suggest you read it first. Click on link to view – Home Assistant Remote Control For My...
Home Assistant Remote Control For My Samsung TV and Sonos
I have a Samsung Smart TV (UA49NU7100) and a Sonos Soundbar/Subwoofer in my lounge room, all of which work really well. For many years we have also used a Logitech Harmony Hub remote control – which was great, as it could give quite specific control, and worked more reliably than the standard Samsung remote. However, after many years of service...
Configure BOM Australia component for Home Assistant
I live in Melbourne in Australia and have installed the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Australia component on my Home Assistant server to present the local weather. I have used the Bureau of Meteorology custom component / integration and the Custom Animated Weather Card to present the current weather and forecasts. Both of these are installed from HACS (integration and frontend)....
Simple robot arm – move from rosserial to MQTT
In my previous posts from this series, I have used a simple servo based robot arm to learn how ROS and MoveIt could be installed to drive the arm’s movement. In those posts I used ‘rosserial‘ to connect my PC running ROS to the Arduino driving the servos. While it worked OK – connecting the Arduino by a USB cable...