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Oggcamp 2024
Published: October 31, 2024
On the 12th October 2024, I headed off to Manchester for OggCamp 2024. This is the first time I have participated in person at an event like this, so I was a little nervous! I made a weekend of it, and would like to share some of the talks I joined.
Dell Wyse 5070
Published: October 30, 2024
During OggCamp 2024, I joined two talks about
Home Assistant, one by Charlie O'Hara called "Automating the home and
annoying the loved ones", and the other called "Home Automation" by
Millie Perkins. My first experiences with Home Assistant were mixed,
and I moved away and start doing the small automation around the house
from the ground up with ESPHome, Node-RED, Grafana and MQTT, all
running in docker containers initially on a Raspberry Pi4,
but latterly in a Debian VM on the Proxmox instance on my home server.
After the two talks, I decided to get a small server, and set up Home Assistant on it. I will document this as I progress, as my plan has several steps!