Troy Hunt

Well that's Christmas down for another year, and a rather different one it was for so many of us around the world. I'm pumping this post out very quickly (a couple of days after recording) whilst midway along a very long drive. I'll share more about that on my New Year's Day broadcast so for now, here's the Christmas Day weekly update: [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id1176454699] [https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=go...

I'm live again! Well, I was live having found enough connectivity in Port Douglas to go back to streaming. I'll still be here next week too and will plan on doing a Christmas morning stream from the same location. I talk a bunch about the trip and what I'm seeing in Aus in the latter part of this video, it's a truly amazing place I'm only just getting to really see extensively now. That said, the present COVID outbreak in Sydney may impact the final leg in the trip as the government guidance now...

Well this is different; a weekly update bereft of neon studio lighting and instead done from the great outdoors, complete with all sorts of animal noises and a (probably) drunk green tree frog. I picked one of my favourite travelling companions to join me this week, a little guy I last did one of these with in a very different environment back in Oslo earlier this year [https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-175/]. I've really been trying to focus my time on family so the Aussie travels dominate...

It's a lighter weekly update this week, kinda feels like I'm still recovering from last week's epic IoT series TBH. It's also the last update from home before I go on my first decent trip since the whole pandemic thing started and as such, the next five updates will all come from other locations, some of them rather, uh, "remote". But there's still an hour of content today including the fact that it's HIBP's birthday 🎂 [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id117...

What. A. Week. Blog post every day, massive uptick in comments, DMs, newsletter subscribers, followers and especially, blog traffic. More than 200,000 unique visitors dropped by this week, mostly to read about IoT things. This has been a fascinating experience for me and I've enjoyed sharing the journey, complete with all my mistakes 🙂 I topped the week off by spending a couple of hours talking to Scott Helme about our respective IoT experiences so that's the entirety of this week's update - Sc...

This is the fifth and final part of the IoT unravelled blog series. Part 1 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/] was all about what a mess the IoT landscape is, but then there's Home Assistant to unify it all. In part 2 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-2-ip-addresses-network-zigbee-custom-firmware-and-soldering/] I delved into networking bits and pieces, namely IP addresses, my Ubiquiti UniFi gear and Zigbee. Part 3 [https://ww...

The first few parts of this series have all been somewhat technical in nature; part 1 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/] was how much of a mess the IoT ecosystem is and how Home Assistant aims to unify it all, part 2 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-2-ip-addresses-network-zigbee-custom-firmware-and-soldering/] got into the networking layer with both Wi-Fi and Zigbee and in part 3 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-par...

In part 1 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/] of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. In part 2 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-2-ip-addresses-network-zigbee-custom-firmware-and-soldering/] , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, lo...

In part 1 [https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/] , I deliberately kept everything really high level because frankly, I didn't want to scare people off. I'm not ashamed to say that the process of getting even the basics working absolutely did my head in as I waded through a sea of unfamiliar technologies, protocols and acronyms. I wish I'd had just the fundamentals down pat before going deeper and that was my intention with the first part of th...

With the benefit of hindsight, this was a naïve question: > Alright clever IoT folks, I've got two of these garage door openers, what do you reckon the best way of connecting them with Apple HomeKit is? https://t.co/i0RmjSMkkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2020 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1253966820010127362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] In my mind, the answer would be simple: "Just buy X, plug it in and you're good to go". Instead, I found myself heading down the rabbit hole into a world...