Danny Tsang

May/21

Bed Sensor With Home Assistant

Filed Under Hardware, Houseware at 5th May 2021 0:01 by Danny

Tags: esp32, esp8266, Force Sensitive Resistors, FSR, home assistant, microcontroller, tasmota, tasmotizer, wemos, wemos d1, wemos d1 mini, wemos d1 mini pro

Overview I had got a set of Ikea FYRTUR which I managed to pair with the SmartThings v3 hub. The goal was to automate the blinds, lights and heated blankets. Instructions and details are provided here as is. Existing Method … Continue reading →

Apr/21

Home Networking Software Services 2021

Filed Under Networking at 4th April 2021 0:01 by Danny

Tags: firewall, fresh, freshping, grafana, nac, network access control, pi-hole, pihole, Pingdom, radius, ubiquiti, unifi, uptimerobot

Overview Following on from infrastructure post which sets out most of the physical side this will cover some of the software that powers the network. In general, a lot of these are not required but doing so will give a … Continue reading →

Mar/21

Home Assistant Introduction

Filed Under Container, Home Automation, Houseware, Infrastructure, Linux at 1st March 2021 0:01 by Danny

Overview I have been using Home Assistant for 6 months and it has been an amazing investment of time and energy. Home Assistant is like the controller or brains behind any home automation. As a community project, it has it’s … Continue reading →

Feb/21

Home Networking Infrastructure

Filed Under Networking at 1st February 2021 0:01 by Danny

Tags: 802.11, 802.x, uap, ubiquiti, unifi, usg, vlan

Overview A follow up to Home Networking Overview posted a while ago. With more than a year past I want to go through the changes made, where I’m at and what future changes. The journey from the original post started … Continue reading →

Jan/21

[Update] EDC Core 2021

Filed Under Blog at 4th January 2021 0:01 by Danny

Tags: edc, garmin, iphone, oneplus, vivoactive, wearables

Overview A minor update to my Core Everyday Carry for 2021. The main change has been part of my 2 year mobile phone upgrade cycle. I will also review some of the other items where they are note worthy. The … Continue reading →

Dec/20

Sleep and Time Tracking Data Flow

Filed Under Blog, Software at 7th December 2020 0:01 by Danny

Tags: automation, health, ifttt, integration, middleware, sleep, sleep mat, toggl, tracking, zapier

Overview This post should hopefully tie in what I do with my sleep tacking data and time tracking. It’s more complicated than it needs to be but automation and integration is still maturing with a large split between business focused … Continue reading →

Nov/20

Ping Logging Tool

Filed Under Networking at 2nd November 2020 0:01 by Danny

Tags: ping

Overview I wanted a tool to log and check network latency and found Ping Logger which would run ping over time and save it into a log with a graph. Summary A neat little app to allow automatic logging and … Continue reading →

Oct/20

Automating Toggl With Android Tasker

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 23rd October 2020 8:20 by Danny

Tags: Android, automation, Tasker

Overview This follows on from the first post about time tracking and setting up Toggl. Automating time tracking helps alleviate the burden of remembering to start and stop timers. There maybe situations where it would not be good etiquette to … Continue reading →