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May/24Home Assistant Constantly Refreshing
Update This has been removed in v2.11.2 and will fail to start if the configuration below is left in. I was seeing constant page refreshes on Home Assistant. In the end, it was changes to Traefik v2.11 and how it … Continue reading
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Apr/24Monitoring Boiler Flow Temperature
Overview I have a basic gas boiler in a conventional setup. After watching Heat Geek channel and their videos on heat pumps, I too wanted to look at how efficient my boiler was running. I did not want to make … Continue reading
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Jan/24Moes Zigbee Thermostat
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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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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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
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Nov/22ZeroTier
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
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
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Oct/22Home Assistant With Version Control
Overview Home Assistant works half in system (e.g. UI integrations) and half in YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML). YAML files are usually stored as .yml or .yaml (Home Assistant works best with the latter). More and more features are available … Continue reading