Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit.
I used a simple script to download one image per minute – combining a cron-job with a few lines of PHP, and used these to create a 60fps 30fps time-lapse video of the approximately 1050 images gathered so far.
It's now been well over a year since I started this habit. As a matter of fact, during this time I have replaced the warm showers all together. Update: It's actually been two years now! This was the second time I wanted to experiment with this habit, but the last…
One of the recent introductions to the already versatile Home Assistant ecosystem is the Condition Selector for blueprints. At its core, this feature seems simple, but its implications for blueprint flexibility are profound. My usecase I've personally used this to update my smart lighting setup. I have one blueprint that…
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from smart devices, which they also sell, to save electricity, money and the environment, as well as improving comfort. It’s a…
