Brett's Random Musings

With the SunPower bankruptcy and many users being left with no great support options (unless they pay a subscription), I am getting more and more people landing and commenting on my earlier SunPower PVS6 posts.

I wrote You Are Wrong About Your Stupid Account about eight years ago, and since then I have had more than a few friends use it as a guide to upgrade their account security, although a few of them turned to the posting after an exploit that could have been

The Winnebago Solis 59P comes with two Group 31 AGM batteries for running the house power and eventually, those batteries are going to need to be replaced.

One of the more practical and super easy to use AI tools I’ve seen is NotebookLM, where one can add documents, text, websites, and more to a notebook and then tell AI to do something with all of the content.

If you’ve ever wanted to see a figurine of yourself but you have no artistic talent, AI image generation can make that dream come true, and you can try it for free.

Update November, 2025: see my most recent post on self-hosting PV6, which has my latest recommendations following the SunPower bankruptcy.

Update November, 2025: see my most recent post on self-hosting PV6, which has my latest recommendations following the SunPower bankruptcy.

For the 3 people that have been reading my posts, you know my journey from ESP8266 hacking off the shelf smart switches to creating custom devices, most of which I connect to Home Assistant so that smart devices are secure and don’t rely on the existence…

When it was clear that nobody was asking for or needed my BART Train Monitor with ESP8266 and SSD1306 display, I knew the obvious response was to invest more time into the project by creating a model for a 3D printed case.

I frequently commute on BART and wanted a convenient way to tell when I should start walking to the train station, ideally something that is always accessible at a glance.