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Intro Last year I first experimented with Webmentions.

Intro As the use of AI to touch up blog articles is now commonplace, I’ve decided to add AI attibution on articles where I used it.

Volkswagen has recently made its Android app dependent on Google Play Protect and Play Integrity for login.

Intro The Sonoff NSPanel is a fancy little combination of a dual-gang switch and a control panel.

Google Takeout Google allows you to make an export of all data it stores about your account via Google Takeout.

Intro Partaking in the annual tradition of turning October into the Cyber(security) Awareness Month (beware of acronyms!)

Intro A cover image is a nice way to draw attention to your blog post when sharing a link via social media.

The Sonoff POWR3 I love being able to control power on a circuit using a smart relais.

Hello, is this mic on?

Intro I recently joined the wave of people parting ways with Twitter/X and migrating to Bluesky.

Hello Friend Since I started with this blog in 2019, I’ve used the hello-friend-ng theme by rhazdon for this site.

Introduction Quite some time ago, I came a cross a tutorial by Blakadder on integrating the IKEA Vindriktning air quality sensor into Home Assistant using Tasmota.

Intro Having played a bit more with my podman and Home Assistant Container setup, I though it was time for an update.

Intro In 2021 I wrote about some awesome cheap Xiaomi temperature and humudity sensors.

Intro Coming home, I usually park my car in the garage.

No more diabetes updates?

The 2023.7 update of ESPHome added readouts for the Belgian capacity tariff to the DSMR component.

First status updates So we’ve arrived at day 2 in the hostpital (if you don’t call the afternoon I got admitted).

Bad news call So yesterday (Saturday) my General Practitioner (GP) dropped a small bomb on me: I have Diabetes.

Intro On a random rainy day I was browsing the web and some rabit hole led me to calisthenics and eventually made me end up at DAREBEE.

Intro Earlier this month, Blakadder did a review of the Ulanzi Desktop Pixel Clock TC001.

Intro I recently got an Electric Vehicle (EV) and of course I want to get it integrated in Home Assistant :) Luckily, I found a HACS integration for MercedesME that provides me with a lot of data about my car and allows me to send some commands to it …

Intro I recently got an Electric Vehicle (EV) and of course I want to get it integrated in Home Assistant :) Luckily, I found a HACS integration for MercedesME that provides me with a lot of data about my car and allows me to send some commands to it …

Intro The Sonoff NSPanel is a fancy little combination of a dual-gang switch and a control panel.

Intro From the Podman documentation: Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images.

Intro You may have purchases some Xiaomi temperature and humidity sensors after reading my blog post from a while back.

Intro Zigbee is a wireless protocol, like WiFi, but developed specifically for (battery powered) Internet-of-Things devices.

Intro If you like designing systems with ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers, definitely check out ESPHome if you haven’t already.

Intro Make sure to backup your Home Assistant install first!

Intro The September 2022 update for Home Assistant just dropped, so it’s time to upgrade.

Intro We’re continuing where we left off after Part 5: Node-RED.

Intro We’re continuing where we left off after Part 4: Mosquitto Docker Container.

Intro We’re continuing where we left off after Part 3: MariaDB and InfluxDB.

Intro We’re continuing where we left off after Part 2: Home Assistant Container.

Intro We’re continuing where we left off after Part 1: Install Debian, Docker and Portainer.

Intro I’m setting up a new Home Assistant box as I’m moving from a power-hungry HP ProLiant to a more energy conserving Beelink Mini Series S.

Intro If you’ve been fiddling with ESPs, you’ve probably been playing with LED strips as well.

For some reason, OnePlus OS12 added the Discover a.k.a.

Intro Starting with the Shelly Pro 4PM and the Shelly Plus 1 / 1PM not long thereafter, Allterco launched a second generation of Shelly devices.

11-11 (11 November) is Singles’ Day in China.

Introduction A few years ago we got some solar panels installed.

Introduction Next to making our lives easier by automating the boring stuff, many people invest in home automation to save money by reducing energy consumption.

Introduction One of the nice things about smart speakers is that they can play audio from a wide variety of sources.

Intro At home we had an old laptop laying around that’s used every so often to do something we couldn’t do (well) on a smartphone or tablet (e.g. creating address labels) or to run a tool that was only available for Windows.

Pegasus Spyware Pegasus Spyware is allegedly used by the Israeli NSO Group to spy not only on terrorists but also activists, journalists and politicians.

Introduction With my desk being located in a more secluded part of the house, I wanted to build something that could notify me of important things.

Introduction As part of automation all my lights in the house, I also automated the lights in my toilet room.

Introduction After seeing some videos by DrZzs and others on setting up DIY ambient lighting for your TV, I knew I wanted to have this :) I took some time to find the correct hardware on AliExpress, noting that I don’t want to downgrade my …

Introduction The ESP32-cam is a tiny ESP32-S based board with a OV2640/OV7670 camera module.

In this blog post I’ll discuss the impact of the Shelly v1.10.0 firmware update introducing CoIoT unicast.