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Facial Recognition for SmartThings using AWS Rekognition

By Kevin Tee June 13, 2019 Home Automation, Instructions, Projects, Smart home 5 Comments
Project Overview This project will help you turn a Raspberry Pi and a Raspberry Pi Camera into a smart doorbell, which is pretty cool. You can of course use this project for other things as well, like a security camera where...
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Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi From Scratch

By Kevin Tee May 17, 2019 Instructions, Smart home 0 Comments
You got a new Raspberry Pi…. You need a hand in setting things up? You’ve come to the right place. Below is hopefully some simple guides on how you can set-up your Raspberry Pi. This tutorial covers all Raspberry Pi variants....
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Creating and Setting up an Amazon Rekognition Account

By Kevin Tee May 17, 2019 Instructions, Smart home 0 Comments
Setup Amazon Rekognition for Your Smart Home Projects! This post will detail out how to create and setup an Amazon Rekognition account to work with the aws cli tool. To be able to register for an Amazon Rekognition account, you will...
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Performing a SpeedTest Using Google Home and/or Alexa

By Kevin Tee April 27, 2019 Home Automation, Projects, Smart home 8 Comments
Introduction Both Google and Amazon has revolotunised the speaker industry. No longer is the norm that a speaker just plays music. The norm these days is that you can speak to these highly intelligent speakers. Ask Google or Alexa when they...
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Asus Lyra Voice review

By Dominic Tee April 6, 2019 Reviews 2 Comments
So i recently got my hands on this smart speaker from Asus. Of course the thing that caught my attention was that while it had Alexa built in to it it is also a Wifi router/extender/repeater! That just blew my mind!...
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Connecting Xiaomi wired wall switch to Smartthings & Google Home

By Dominic Tee January 26, 2019 Projects, Smart home 28 Comments
  update : 30th Jan 2019. As confirmed by Marko, this works for even 1 gang Xiaomi switches Introduction So if you are like me, i have a lot of light fittings which i find it hard to change the fixture...
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