Will Cooke (8none1)

TL;DR The Growatt ShineWiFi-X is a Wi-Fi dongle that plugs into the “USB” port on a Growatt inverter.

TL;DR If you control Bluetooth devices through ESPHome Bluetooth proxies, some integrations connect once and then never let go, holding a precious proxy connection slot open forever.

TL;DR I bought a pair of Eufy X8 robot vacuums.

TL;DR I built a small personal-scale tool (Bookcast) — drop audiobooks into a Google Drive folder, get RSS feeds you can subscribe to in any podcast app.

TL;DR After months of scraping emails to track Octopus Energy’s Free Electricity Sessions, I’ve discovered an official GraphQL API that provides reliable data.

How to Use Octopus Power Ups and Free Electricity Session JSON Objects in Home Assistant Introduction to Octopus Power Ups and Free Electricity Sessions Octopus Power Ups and Free Electricity Sessions don’t currently have official API support.

Automating Power Ups Octopus Energy are a UK energy supplier who are more progressive than the rest of the UK providers put together.

Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system.

Finally the wireframe city Over four years ago Stuart wrote about a twenty year search to track down an old sound sample from the Acorn Archimedes.

Late Night Linux Telegram News Bot On the Late Night Linux podcast we talk about goings on in the Linux and Open Source ecosystem.

Using data for fun and profit Electricity prices In the UK wholesale electricity prices are tightly coupled to gas prices.

You live and learn.

Amazon have made some changes to the (admittedly generous) Alexa AWS credits programme which made me think about the services that I run there and how to reduce my bill a bit.

In episode 100 of Late Night Linux I talked a little bit about trying out Pi Hole and AdGuard to replace my home grown ad blocker based on dnsmasq and a massive hosts file.

Background Story With the recent news about the ISP UK association proposing Mozilla as “Internet villain of the year” for enabling DNS over HTTPS (and subsequently changing their mind and dropping the whole category of villain of the year.

Sheesh!

It’s clear that a lot of people develop software using Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Desktop Newsletter I’m going to start a weekly newsletter style update to keep people abreast of what’s been going on with Ubuntu Desktop as we move to GNOME Shell and build the foundations for 18.04 LTS.

In my previous post about How To Add OAUTH to your Alexa app in 10 minutes a couple of people commented that they couldn’t actually access the users information once they had linked their account.

Edit: I heard that Cisco have now removed the SIP firmware from their site.