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  • The state of my Home Assistant in 2024

    The state of my Home Assistant in 2024

    The state of my Home Assistant in 2024 My #homeautomation journey started 4 yrs ago (2020) when I bought 1 Aqara #zigbee hub, 1 room temp. sensor and 1 smart socket (for controling the heating of the office). I started with Aqara app. with 1 automation: If office temp <…

  • Home Assistant gauge card – manually defined colours

    Home Assistant gauge card – manually defined colours

    Home Assistant gauge card – manually defined colours This post fits to #TIL (Today I learned) category. The ‘normal’ way to define colours in a ‘gauge’ card is by defining severity from UI gauge settings. There are only 4 colours available in a sequence: blue, green, yellow, red: Standard colours…

  • 3D design and printing with TPU (plant pot stand)

    3D design and printing with TPU (plant pot stand)

    3D design and printing with TPU (plant pot stand) If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout (embedded pics) is off, here’s the link to the original blog post. The problem: My ceramic pot planted with basil had no stand and the water was flowing everywhere after the watering.…

  • Replacing the original air duct and a fan on 3D printer (Sovol SV06)

    Replacing the original air duct and a fan on 3D printer (Sovol SV06)

    Replacing the original air duct and a fan on 3D printer (Sovol SV06) If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. It started with this ‘blob of death’. I was printing with…

  • Make Glances run automatically after Raspberry Pi reboot

    Make Glances run automatically after Raspberry Pi reboot

    Run Glances at RBPI startup If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. In my previous post, I struggled to run glances on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. After a first reboot…

  • Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024

    Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024

    Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024 If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. Few years ago (2019?) it was like: And voila, I could monitor CPU, disk etc.…

  • OS/2 nostalgia

    OS/2 nostalgia

    It has been … how long? 25 years? Probably. I’ve been in love with OS/2 in one of my previous lives. While everybody around me praised and used Windows 95 at that time, I stubbornly stuck to OS2 Warp 4.0. It ran Windows and DOS apps better than Win and…

  • Selfhosting – ductape and sticks all the way down

    Selfhosting – ductape and sticks all the way down

    #selfhosting is a beautiful thing because of the one and only reason: when I decide, I can just turn off that old laptop(s) that is(are) cosplaying servers and I’m gone from the internet. Ok, probably my content will remain on Internet Archive. Scrapers also scraped my content so… my dissapearance…

  • Waking up the screen of FireHD tablet using YAKK app

    Waking up the screen of FireHD tablet using YAKK app

    If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. I replaced my current setup of waking up the #FireHD (#HomeAssistant dashboard). A while ago I complained about issues related to waking up the…

  • Who’s on my network?

    Who’s on my network?

    (#WatchYourLAN) If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: I’m just curious what is connected to my home network, because it’s over 30 devices. Some have static IPs, some dynamic.…