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Episode 4: fifteen spoken announcements on a school day, from wake-up to bedtime. The sound played fine from day one, and nobody moved. Eight writing rules, a wake-up rewritten three times in one day, and what happens when the bedroom speaker is offline.
Episode 3: the house now carries the shape of the day. Gate open at 7:55, television cut at 7:30 p.m., shutters closed at the same moment, and an official open dataset that suspends the whole thing during school holidays. Every piece took an evening, and that is what made changing my mind three times possible.
A survey of a ten-year home automation build: from Jeedom and hand-flashed ESP8266 boards to 87 devices across nine ecosystems. What I built alone, what arrived once I started working with an agent, and the two examples that carry the difference.
Complete renovation of the two other bedrooms of the 1970s house, including removal of blue and pink wallpaper, replacement of windows with aluminum sliding windows, wall preparation (plastering, sanding, painting), and laminate flooring installation with thermal and acoustic insulation.
Complete renovation of the parental bedroom of the 1970s house, including demolition, expansion to create a dressing room, network installation, construction of new spaces with metal rails and BA13 boards, and finishing work.
Complete renovation of the new entry of the 1970s house, including demolition of the old WC door, creation of a closet recess, network installation, and door replacement.
Complete renovation of the 1970s house hallway, from wall and floor preparation to flooring installation and finishing.
Transforming the former entry (north side) into a WC after moving the main entry to the south side of the house.
Total renovation of the 1970s house bathroom, from demolition to finishing. Unexpected discovery: all plumbing was in the concrete floor, requiring complete renovation of the house plumbing.
Complete renovation of a small bathroom in a 2008 apartment, from demolition to finishing, with a modern and minimalist design.
Building a suspended ceiling light fixture with a wooden plank and 6 Edison bulbs, using neodymium magnets for mounting.
Creating a wooden rack structure recessed into a hollow partition wall to organize network equipment in a discreet manner.
Organization and setup of a built-in closet in the desk room with shelf installation and storage units to optimize storage space.
Creating a custom emplacement to integrate a refrigerator in an open kitchen by building a partition wall.
Building an Ambi-like system with a 4m strip composed of 240 WS2812B LEDs and a Teensy 2.0 to reproduce the computer's video stream on the LEDs.
Building a custom desk with an integrated PC, including shelf for screens, sound system, ventilation and finishes.
Building a DIY Ambi-like system with a 50 LED WS2801 strip, a Raspberry Pi and Hyperion software to reproduce Philips Ambilight effect.
First home automation article: controlling Chacon DIO First outlets via a Raspberry Pi and a 433MHz transmitter.