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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 →

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May/22

Water Depth Sensor With ESP32

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 2nd May 2022 0:01 by

Overview We live in a house with a water tank in the loft which uses gravity to feed water to any of the water sources upstairs in the house like the hot water tank to bathroom taps. Now and again, … Continue reading →