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May/23

Home Assistant Continuous Integration Workflow 2023

Filed Under Home Automation, Workflow at 1st May 2023 0:01 by

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/23

Disable FireFox Download Panel Automatically Opening

Filed Under Software at 3rd April 2023 0:01 by

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/23

Central Heating Graph With Home Assistant

Filed Under Blog, Home Automation at 6th March 2023 0:01 by

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/23

Separate Networks By Password With Aruba (PPSK/MPSK)

Filed Under Networking at 6th February 2023 0:01 by

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/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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Dec/22

Zigbee Firmware List

Filed Under Home Automation at 9th December 2022 17:17 by

A useful list of Zigbee published firmwares are available from: OTA Image Types Firmware versions

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Nov/22

ZeroTier

Filed Under Infrastructure at 7th November 2022 0:01 by

Overview I have been looking at moving towards a zero trust network but I have never been able to get other how home devices especially Internet of Things (IOT) generally use discovery protocols to ease setup which is contradictory to … Continue reading →

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Nov/22

“Real Time” Solar / Energy Dashboard

Filed Under Blog, Home Automation at 7th November 2022 0:01 by

Summary Home Assistant introduced an energy dashboard in 2021.8. Whilst useful and offers a quick setup, it lags an hour behind due to the way it presents data. So I set out to create my own “real time” dashboard. I … Continue reading →