Month: July 2020

Echo Flex Motion Sensor Light Automation

July 23, 2020 Geoff Hudik

Since it was first announced I was interested in the Echo Flex and the Echo Flex Motion Sensor to automate lights based on motion. One initial use case of mine was for hallways since they are often away from natural light. Hallways are also passed through frequently so often I’d just leave the light on…

Downloading a Single File From a Private GitHub Repository

July 20, 2020 Geoff Hudik

Sometimes it’s handy to use curl or wget to download a single file from a GitHub repository. Maybe it’s needed on a server where Git is not installed or it’s not desirable to clone or pull a repo for one file. Or perhaps cloning / pulling the repo locally and copying to the server isn’t…