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Jan/25

Self Hosted Productivity Tools 2025

Filed Under Infrastructure, Productivity at 6th January 2025 0:01 by

Overview A list of useful productivity tools which are self hosted. These are self hosted for various reasons and a good snapshot of the tools I use on a frequent basis. I am hoping this list will grow to as … Continue reading →

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Dec/24

Home Assistant: Home Modes

Filed Under Home Automation at 2nd December 2024 0:01 by

Overview A quick walk through of how I use home mode in Home Assistant. This is not a tutorial but more of guide and idea of what I use them for. Dropdown / Input Select Helper I use a helper … Continue reading →

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Apr/24

Monitoring Boiler Flow Temperature

Filed Under Home Automation, Houseware, Infrastructure at 1st April 2024 0:01 by

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/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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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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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 →