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Updated 2019-03-18 ! Do You have Telldus devices up and running and want them to be visible and used in Apples Home app ? With some software and a Raspberry Pi(RPi)  they will appear in the HomeKit environment. Other  HomeKit posts  on this Blogg

Dimming not dimmable LED, IKEA Bäve Inspired by LarsWH and using a Z-Wave controller I got it working  with a "standard" component. Other  HomeKit posts        on this Blogg         A new version !!  With an  IKEA controller and HomeKit enabled is  available here  !!

I bought the Gledopto RGB+CCT LED controller (GO), so I could use RGB LED strips, not just the IKEA ones. There were some IF:s, which will be scrutinized below, but it worked. Other  HomeKit posts  on this Blogg

Updated 2019-01-07  !! Note !! Before Monterey !!  As a part of one of my projects,  the ultimate Weather site ?? Weather34 (W34), I needed a WEB-host with PHP and started to use a Raspberry Pi . In this post You will get some short install tips on Apache with PHP on a Mac with Mojave, macOS 10.14.x, and a t the end of the post the W34 installation is done.

Updated 2019-09-02 ! If you think it's ok that the broadband speed appears as temperature in Home apps  this plugin is very nice. The plugin, used with Homebridge (HB), measures Your broadband speed at chosen intervals. If You use the free app " Eve for Homekit ", besides that it shows the last measured broad band speed,  it also shows the speed history in a nice graph. Other  HomeKit posts  on this Blogg

Updated 2019-04-01 ! Prerequisites is listed in the beginning of the post for installation on  Raspberry Pi(RPi) You will find migration information, from WeatherLink 1.0 to WeatherLink 2.0, in this post

Extending Your WiFi via cable have the advantage, compared to extending via WFi, that You keep the bandwidth at max. Extending Your WiFi with products that use the same frequencies, as Your WiFi, will just put through 50% of the data flow. One way to extend the WiFi is with a cheap router, or maybe an  old router You  don't use any more.

Updated 2019-02-05 ! Using  Homebridge for a while , getting nice hardware to emulate Apples HomeKit devices, I finally decided to test IKEA:s Trådfri concept. The actual device that I was interested in is the wireless control outlet. But they have bulbs and other stuff that is really nice priced. This post will cover an installation of the Trådfri gateway with a HomeKit approach.   Other  HomeKit posts  on this Blogg

Upgrading from Jessie to Stretch can break the entire system so ALLWAYS do a backup. There are several sites/posts with "how to" information but the Raspberry site , the Linuxconfig site and the Superuser site ,  (where You can find more details about the upgrade),  made the base for this post.