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Mar/25

Home 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

06

Jan/25

Self 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

02

Dec/24

Home 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

01

Apr/24

Monitoring 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

01

Jan/24

Moes 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

04

Dec/23

Smart 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

06

Feb/23

Separate 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

09

Dec/22

Zigbee Firmware List

A useful list of Zigbee published firmwares are available from: OTA Image Types Firmware versions