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I got those IKEA Symfonisk speaker lamps... and they're quite a bit bigger than I was expecting. Clare was not keen on my choosing something like this for the house without having checked with her first anyway...

Also I bought an IKEA smart socket to give it a try thinking "I don't need the gateway as my google home has that already built in". I forgot that it was my old amazon echo that had that built in, the one that Dad has now. So I need to get the gateway in order to get any use out of this. It is all Zigbee standard so maybe I can find another option, using the raspberry pi...

It's only another twenty quid to buy the gateway hub thing BUT there is a ten pound delivery charge for IKEA. I could have planned this better. Might try and go to IKEA instead, but getting there and back will cost me more than that tenner of course...

I'm going to try and set these up and blend them into the lounge before she gets home. Good job she never reads this!

raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in A small town, Kent. Married to Clare and dad to 2, I am a full stack web developr, and I do javascript / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, running, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.