I'd previously set up an If-This-Then-That (IFTTT) integration with Monzo to put 20p into a pot every time I tweet. I'd locked the pot until mid-November.

Then the PS5 pre-orders opened, and the release date in the UK was November 19th, 2020. My pot would unlock just before this - neat!

In part 1 of this series of blog posts about Home Assistant I got setup and created an automation.

In this post I'll cover what I use most on the mobile app and how I use notifications where relevant to my automations.

I've had various 'smart' devices in the house for a while, but they're all separate systems that don't talk to each other. I looked into systems to get everything talking to each other and Home Assistant is the one I chose to go with!

This series of blog posts about Home Assistant will document and detail the setup I'm using, as well as linking to the devices, parts and equipment I'm using to make what I'm doing possible.

It's been one month since I went #FullMonzo, I'm thinking of periodically writing posts on my findings both in my own spending habits, but also in how I'm using Monzo to better manage my money.

I recently wanted to be able to control whether a route was available based on an environment variable, in dev I wanted it available, but in production I wanted it turned off (for now). I like using feature flags and environment variables to toggle things on and off, and thought I'd write up how I did it here.