https://www.hjdskes.nl/categories/home-automation/ Recent content in Home automation on Jente Hidskes' website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Copyright © 2016-2022 Jente Hidskes Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:46:20 +0100 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/home-automation/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:46:20 +0100 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/home-automation/ Back in May I wrote that I was thinking of some home automation projects. However, what fun would it be to buy readily made products? And, more importantly, what would the quality of those products be? We all know that many IoT products are insecure and privacy invading and leave you depending on the manufacturer for updates. Finally, home automation is an excellent learning project. It encompasses so many different technologies, both high- and low-level. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/cage/ Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:31:12 +0100 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/cage/ Yesterday I made Cage publically available. Cage is a kiosk for Wayland. A kiosk is designed for running a single, maximized application and preventing the user from interacting with any other part of the system. You can read more about Cage on its project page. I developed Cage as part of my home automation project. This is a hobby and learning project where I build my own, well, home automation system (from scratch, i.