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Posted on March 11, 2018 Home Assistant Home Automation IOT

Using a Z-Wave USB Stick with Home Assistant

In my Last Post I talked about doing a physical installation of some Z-Wave thermostats. In this post, I’m going to talk about what I had to go through to get an Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 working with Home Assistant running on Lubuntu. I was actually surprised how easy everything was; I had no idea that Home Assistant’s Z-Wave integration was so well done. Read more...

Posted on March 6, 2018 Home Assistant Home Automation IOT

Installing a Smart/Connected Thermostat

NOTE: If you are replacing a thermostat, be sure to cut power to the board on your furnace that powers the thermostat. I made the mistake of just turning off the breaker labeled ‘AC’. The board still had power. As I was replacing the first thermostat, I must have shorted wires, which is likely to happen to most people. Lucky for me, this simply burned the fuse Read more...

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