In the Spring of 2021, my partner and I bought a static caravan by the North Norfolk coast. It’s an older 2007 Delta Santana. We

I have a page on my smart home blog that covers the hardware currently in use (and retired). I thought I would do the same

Where to start The first thing on the list for the smart static is to get an internet connection with enough bandwidth to hopefully be

Pi 4 in it’s pretty case I decided early on that the caravan needed a brain for the various things I wanted to try.  I

Cameras. I don’t need any cameras at the ‘van, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to explore for several other projects I’ve been thinking about…

Smarting the appliances When I first started planning before buying the ‘van I thought I would smart everything up. Replace the plug sockets with USB

The next challenge was to address two big problems Offline Smart Static Physical Switches The first issue is how will everything work if the caravan

TP-SF1005P v2 Thinking Infrastructure Something I hadn’t really given much thought to until this week was how I was going to power the smart static

Safe shutdowns… and startups I have not idea how stable the power is at the static, but most of the time we will be turning