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You don't need books. Google is your friend and sites like Hackster.io have great projects. Books go out of date quickly.

Surely Now TV has been their trial of this for years..

Howdy, So I was looking for a solution to retrofit a new alarm panel that notified me if the alarm at home was triggered. Turns out people want to sell you a new system rather than just a panel.. understandable I guess. But then I stumbled across this awesome project! It turns a Pi with a...

Yes it is a replacement for the Hub and does have some limitations. However if you know your way around a Pi script and IFTTT then you can easily do what you want with them. I am going to get the hub at some point so I can add other devices they do (Bulbs, sockets, light switches etc) but will...

Looking again I think they are the same. I was comparing to Amazon who have now reduced theirs to £19.99 also! I am trying to get the £10 back now without having to return the item and re-order.. *EDIT* So they wont refund the difference.. I have placed another order and managed to get a...

Not 100% sure.. the description says it needs the Mi Home Hub and I cannot see the model number. Worst case take them back. I might grab some too and save £10 then send the others back to Amazon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am loosely documenting it now, more so that if it all goes tits up I know how to set it up again. Yesterday I set it up on a PiB but thought having two Pi's doing what one could do was overkill. So I spent an hour moving it to a Pi2 which of course was a different software set up... However...

A year ago I bought some Energenie plugs with a Raspberry Pi hat. They sat in a drawer until yesterday. I had a day to myself so I got them out, whacked the hat on a Pi2 and googled the shit out of it. What I have ended up with is a Pi2 with Apache installed configured to run Python scripts...

I have Energenie plugs however I have the ones that come with the Raspberry Pi hat. Unfortunately the Pi hat does not work with the native MiHome App and therefore does not play with Alexa :( I am now looking into using them with IFTTT and a way to get them to work with alexa. Alternatively I...

I bagged an Echo and a Dot. Using them for the basics like mentioned but will soon get them hooked up to sockets/lights soon. Once IFTTT is enabled on the UK ones it will open up all sorts of opportunities. Some of the guys at work have been making their own skills which they said was fairly...

We watch those programs on TV where Greg Wallace goes round and saves people thousands each year... We do not understand how this even happens! We shop smart and we eat smart. I see these shows and people who claim to have nothing are spending £200+ a week on food.. They have no concept of...

In for me. All of the 'debates' I have seen on TV have been a farce.. Farrage was branded a Racist against Africans on one show ? Eddie Izzard dressing as his alter-ego on another.. None of this has been taken seriously. No friends of mine from a multitude of professions (Doctors to...

We let him finish but his workmanship was terrible. Took him nearly a month in the end! We never gave him a penny more.. Lesson learnt.

That's what I am hoping for ;) - - - Updated - - - Added a bonus question to the original post.

Ah... Well I have BT for BB/Calls and $ly for everything else. It was only so I could have HD in one of the rooms at least.

Howdy folks. So I have dabbled with Open Box and had the EPG frustrations that come with it. Then I went legit for 2 years with our friends on a decent deal. Now the second year deal is coming to an end and if I cannot get a decent deal out of them, then I am considering the Zgemma route. Some...

Think it was just an ornament. At one stage I thought he was using the front room as a garage! The amount of tools.. I think he turned it into a workshop to get stuff ready for other jobs. Using the coffee table as something to cut on, not covering the carpet... I will get some other photo's...

Well he finally finished on Monday 14th!! 4/5 day job took nearly 3 weeks... We never paid him a penny more and we have stuff we need to touch up.. I just wanted him out. As for his work, it is just OK. Nothing I couldn't have done. The wife has learnt a valuable lesson!

yep.. well let's see what he has done (or not) tonight)

He did some work for a neighbour. Not recommended but we used to see him around so thought as he has spent a year there he must be ok. Its bad..