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Presence Detection with Life360 (or OwnTracks if you prefer)

Presence Detection: One of the most useful, and yet elusive, features of a good Smart Home is location tracking.  For as long as I’ve been involved in the DIY Smart Home community (which admittedly hasn’t been very long), there has been a clamoring among the people in search of the “best” way to incorporate location…

IoT Adventures – Part 1

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3TRPYvsWE[/embedyt] How this first IoT Adventure Quest works:  Wand is in a box locked with a magnetic lock. To open the box the player needs to charge the wand with a spell of fire or ice by warming or cooling a dragon egg. When it hits the goal temp a light will glow Red…