All things Geeky
As a homeowner, if you are tired of checking the Ring app repeatedly to make sure your home is armed for away when you are not home, armed for home when you are home, and lastly trying to rush to the keypad because the alarm is about to go off if you don’t disarm it […]
When I became a father, I had to warm up the milk for my daughter every couple of hours. The most popular milk warmer on the market doesn’t come with a timer, so I had to plug the bottle warmer in, start a timer on my phone and unplug the warmer when timer is up. […]
I use an android app – Tachiyomi to download and read my favorite comics. Tachiyomi is a free and open source manga reader for Android with support for various extensions. Some of the features include online and offline reading from over a thousand sources, tracking and switching between sources, a configurable reading experience with multiple […]
I think Tesla Sentry mode is a very underrated feature and I wanted to utilize it to its full potential. Here is one of my newest addition to the home automation that utilizes Tesla Sentry mode to monitor and record the Amazon Key in-garage Delivery from Tesla Model 3’s 8 cameras. Automation Check out my […]
When I bought my new home, I was very excited to finally be able to automate my garage cover. It always annoyed me when I had to push a button to open and close the garage cover, so I considered purchasing the Tesla Automatic Garage Opener for $325. But I simply couldn’t justify the cost […]
I use the Ring security system for my home and I love the ease of use and the subscription price. I have a number of door/window sensors, motion detectors, doorbell cam, and indoor and outdoor cams, which provide me with peace of mind in terms of security. However, they don’t make glass break sensors, which […]
What’s better than watching a Movie? Watching a movie with the perfect ambient lighting. After researching a bunch of proprietary solutions, I decided to build something on my own. This way, I can set it up just the way I like and evolve over time with a little initial cost. Little did I know, this […]
I recently ran into an interesting problem with cleaning up some uploads from my Netgear Meural account. The mobile app and web interface both let me upload pictures and videos to a playlist, but when I delete the playlist it won’t delete the media items from the playlist. The only way to delete the media […]
The state of home automation has come a long way from when I started my home automation journey. This is what I had to do just a few years ago to simply control the lights in my house use an android app called Automate from Llamalab, which listens for “ok google” catchphrase Automate invokes relevant […]
This post continues from my first post on reverse engineering a private API. In the previous post I explained how I had to jailbreak my iPhone to bypass SSL pinning used by the mobile app for secure communication with its server. I was so excited to finally get everything working and see the HTTPS network […]
