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Aug/23Salt Level For Water Softener With ESPHome
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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Jul/23Unraid
Overview I have been using Unraid for over 2 years now and it has a great in-between a full solution such as a NAS dedicated hardware and a homelab DIY solution. The idea was to use it as a server … Continue reading
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Jun/23Increase Growatt Shine Update Interval
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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May/23Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2023
Overview Previously, I was using TravisCI to perform checks on any changes to Home Assistant files. Since then, TravisCI has introduced caps and pricing plans and on the free tier I ran out of credits very quickly which broke the … Continue reading
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Apr/23Disable FireFox Download Panel Automatically Opening
A change was made to FireFox where if you download a file, the download box opens and steals focus from the website. To disable this, go to about:config and search for browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel and set it to false by double clicking … Continue reading
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Mar/23Central Heating Graph With Home Assistant
Overview I have created a graph to show temperature for each room in the house broken down to level/floor they are on so I can see how well heated each room is. I don’t have any smart thermostatic radiator valves … Continue reading
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Feb/23Separate Networks By Password With Aruba (PPSK/MPSK)
Overview I was looking for devices that supported Private PreShared Keys (PPSK) which allow a single access point to be broadcasted and depending on the preshared key used i.e password for the WiFi then it will assign various privileges. At … Continue reading
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Jan/23Home Assistant Dashboard On A Raspberry Pi
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