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Jan/24

Moes Zigbee Thermostat

Filed Under Hardware at 1st January 2024 0:01 by

Overview I have an electric underfloor heating in one of the rooms. It uses the old version of the ProWarm Pro Digital Thermostat. It has the usual controls for a non connected thermostat such as schedule and manual heating controls. … Continue reading →

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Dec/23

Smart Bulbs With Light Switches

Filed Under IOT at 4th December 2023 0:01 by

Borrowing this idea from Tom McGuinness. This is the ultimate setup to allow features of a smart bulb like changing colours, Zigbee/Matter repeater and still retain the functional use of your light switch. The concept is to disconnect the bulb … Continue reading →

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Aug/23

Salt Level For Water Softener With ESPHome

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 7th August 2023 0:01 by

overview We got a water softener installed near the water mains coming into the house. It’s a “dumb” softener so that it does not rely on using electricity. This means it will continue to work in a power outage but … Continue reading →

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Jun/23

Increase Growatt Shine Update Interval

Filed Under Hardware, Infrastructure, IOT at 5th June 2023 0:01 by

A quick, at your own risk tutorial to change the reporting frequency of your Growatt Shine sensor data. This won’t change the data being reported on the Growatt dashboard / ShinePhone app however it will show up things like grott … Continue reading →

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Jan/23

Home Assistant Dashboard On A Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 7th January 2023 12:30 by

Overview I wanted to create a display of a web page on a Raspberry Pi with no desktop or browser looking controls. This is called a kiosk mode. The main driver for this is to replace the MagicMirror to show … Continue reading →

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Sep/22

Enable Coral AI USB On Unraid

Filed Under Linux, Peripherals at 5th September 2022 0:01 by

Edge computing is becoming more affordable and Coral AI USB is one example: This was running detection at 5 FPS on a Coral AI at 10ms v.s. 2 out of 4 cores on an Intel. To use the Coral AI … Continue reading →

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May/22

Water Depth Sensor With ESP32

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 2nd May 2022 0:01 by

Overview We live in a house with a water tank in the loft which uses gravity to feed water to any of the water sources upstairs in the house like the hot water tank to bathroom taps. Now and again, … Continue reading →

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Dec/21

Raspberry Pi Connect To Hidden SSID

Filed Under IOT, Networking at 6th December 2021 0:01 by

Turns out the Raspberry Pi won’t automatically look for hidden WiFi networks. CLI To enable this edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and add scan_ssid=1 inside the network declaration: SD With the SD plugged into another computer other than the Raspberry Pi, … Continue reading →