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Mar/25Home Assistant: Naming Convention
Overview A boring yet important topic that I’m sure many have come across in their working life. Home Assistant has it’s own naming conventions for developers. This topic falls into do what you want but I’m of the nature to … Continue reading
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Jan/25Self Hosted Productivity Tools 2025
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/24Home Assistant: Home Modes
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/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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Dec/23Smart Bulbs With Light Switches
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/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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Dec/22Zigbee Firmware List
A useful list of Zigbee published firmwares are available from: OTA Image Types Firmware versions