Home Automation - Stephen Radford

Home Automation

A collection of 6 posts

Controlling Homebridge with Alexa

Controlling Homebridge with Alexa

I've written a fair few posts about HomeKit [https://stephenradford.me/tag/homekit/] and Homebridge but there was one piece of that whole puzzle that I was never really happy with—Siri. While Siri does a job to some extent I think it's hard to say that it does it

HomeKit IR Blaster: Controlling My TV with HomeKit

HomeKit IR Blaster: Controlling My TV with HomeKit

If you've read any of my [https://stephenradford.me/homekit-lifx-integration-with-homebridge/] previous [https://stephenradford.me/cheap-homekit-led-strips-lighting/] posts [https://stephenradford.me/cheap-homekit-light-bulbs/] then you probably already realise I'm on a mission to automate my entire house and control it using Apple's HomeKit protocol. I'm pretty satisfied with the lights in my house

Controlling HomeKit with an Amazon Dash Button

Controlling HomeKit with an Amazon Dash Button

Since hooking up Homebridge and controlling lights and LED strips in my living room I've been looking for a physical switch to control it. The only HomeKit enabled switch I've found is the Elgato Eve Light Switch [https://www.elgato.com/en/eve/eve-light-switch] which is pretty reasonable at $50

HomeKit Featured

Cheap HomeKit Light Bulbs

Following on from my previous posts about using HomeKit with LIFX [https://stephenradford.me/homekit-lifx-integration-with-homebridge/] and creating HomeKit LED Strips [https://stephenradford.me/cheap-homekit-led-strips-lighting/] I wanted to see if I could add some more bulbs into the mix. I wanted RGB bulbs so I could colour match with the LED

Cheap HomeKit LED Strips

Cheap HomeKit LED Strips

After my success with Homebridge and LIFX [https://stephenradford.me/homekit-lifx-integration-with-homebridge/] I wanted to get some more HomeKit compatible lights for my house. LED strips provide an easy way to hide versatile and flexible lights away and make the perfect mood lighting. Philips Hue already offer LED strips with LIFX's

HomeKit ❤️ LIFX

Projects Featured

HomeKit ❤️ LIFX

Every three months or so I found myself looking at Philips Hue and since iOS 10 came around with its deep HomeKit integration the desire for home automation has be higher. One thing that always put me off about the Hue system is the price. To buy into the system