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10 Days Away On Vacation (How did our Home Automation System do?)
Our family spent 10 enjoyable days this summer visiting England and France. That’s us above at the Palace of Versailles (which is amazing and beautiful, like most everything we saw)! Highly recommend a visit if you haven’t already and can make it work! Now, this a home automation blog so I’ll focus mostly on those…
Installation Guide for Home Assistant on Windows
Installing Home Assistant Operating System -Minimum virtual system requirements: 2 GB RAM | 32 GB Storage | 2vCPU Restoring the Home Assistant Blueprint provided by EffortlessHome Installing Home Assistant Core Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart Open your Linux distribution and update the package…
Vaultwarden Instructions
Overview EffortlessHome uses Vaultwarden technology to securely and bi-directionally communicate secret information. This solution ensures your information remains secure and encrypted while still facilitating the required steps to configure and support your home automation solution. How To Get A Vaultwarden Account When you begin working with us we will send an email invite to our Vaultwarden…
Frequently Asked Questions
What is different about EffortlessHome? Our mission is to make truly automated homes affordable and available to everyone. We dislike how the big vendors have created siloed solutions which are hard to make work together let alone with other vendors products. At EffortlessHome we only sell devices we use in our own homes and give…
Matterbridge Review, Instructions, Tips & Tricks
For as long as I have been involved with home automation (7+ years) I have used pretty much every available option to build links between the big 3 assistant platforms (Homekit, Alexa, Google Assistant) and my smart home. Unfortunately, while the available approaches all “worked” (to various degrees), there were always trade-offs, the main one…
Introducing Effortless(2nd)Home
Looking to improve your second home convenience and security while saving money and time? Our comprehensive second home automation solution can do just that!
Our Vision of the Future AI-Powered Smart Home
We’re excited about the future prospects of AI in the smart home. EffortlessHome is building to prepare our customers for this future where the AI-controlled home learns and adapts for unrivaled comfort, convenience, security, and energy savings.
Make “Dumb” Appliances Smart With Power Monitoring Smart Plugs
Wishing you had a smart appliance like a dishwasher or washing machine that would let you know when it is running or the cycle is complete? Check out this article where we explain how this can be done easily and affordably using an EffortlessHome power monitoring smart plug.
Our Best Home Automations
Here at EffortlessHome we live and breath technology including home automation. We’re always pushing the envelope and looking for ways to streamline our lives and home to make both more convenient and “effortless”. In this article I will share some of the automations and solutions we use in our own home and, quite frankly, couldn’t…
Benefits of an offline home automation system
For many, the term “smart home” conjures images of voice-controlled assistants and smartphone apps. But what if there was another way? An approach that prioritizes privacy, reliability, and even affordability? Enter the offline home automation system, a setup that breaks free from the internet and offers a surprising range of benefits.
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