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Home Assistant Dashboard – Family

February 9, 2022May 6, 2022 No Comments

Introducing one of my Home Assistant dashboard views – Family. I am starting a new series of “Show and Tell” for some of the views I have created for my Home Assistant dashboard. I had to start with the family view because this is probably the first one I created when I started using HA. […]

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Home Automation – Then & Now

February 7, 2022August 22, 2022 No Comments

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 […]

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DIY

TV Ambient Lighting

January 25, 2022March 13, 2022 2 Comments

This project is a journey from an idea to a working prototype. When I started this project in 2017 with just a simple idea, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it’s been such a fun learning experience for me. Prototype This is how it started in 2017. I started with […]

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Automate Boring Stuff Open Source

Reverse Engineering Private API – OAuth Code Flow with PKCE

June 30, 2021March 16, 2022 1 Comment

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 […]

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Automate Boring Stuff Open Source

Reverse Engineering Private API – SSL Pinning

May 30, 2021March 16, 2022 1 Comment

Last year, I backed an Air purifier from Kickstarter developed by Mila Cares team, who promised to provide public API on launch. My goal was to write an integration component for the air purifier with Home Assistant like I have done in the past with Snoo smart sleeper and Mint finance. However, I wasn’t surprised […]

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DIY Home Assistant

Creating a DIY Multisensor

July 24, 2020March 16, 2022 No Comments

If you are wondering what this ugly-looking thing is, it’s the multisensor I made using some electronic components I already had from previous DIY projects. As I started getting into the Smart home hobby, I quickly realized how expensive it gets with so many sensors I have to place around the house (e.g. motion, temperature, […]

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Automate Boring Stuff Random

iOS and watchOS App – VLC Remote

August 13, 2016April 3, 2022 No Comments

As soon as Apple released WatchKit for developing WatchOS Applications, I wanted to learn how to make an app and publish it to the app store. I use a VLC media player to play music and sometimes videos and I use an iPhone application that controls the playback and volume. Unfortunately, the developer of the […]

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Android App – ETA Trip Manager

November 10, 2014April 3, 2022 No Comments

Another demo from one of my favorite classes at New York University. As part of my mobile application group project, we wanted to work on a mobile app that solves a common problem among friends when planning a meetup and also combines our learning from the Cloud Computing class. Idea Have you ever wanted an […]

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