Author: Tomi
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Home Assistant and breaking changes (27. 12. 2023)
I’ve been running #homeassistant for 2 years now and have never dealt with breaking changes. Until today. 1st breaking change: #ESPHome entities are unavailable After updating Home Assistant Core to 2023.12.4 and ESPHome to the latest (Dec. 2023) I’ve noticed ESP entities marked as ‘Unavailable‘. Moreover, all entities had duplicates in the entity list ending…
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Pimp my dishwasher part 2
In my previous post, I wrote about measuring the consumption of the dishwasher using a Tuya smart socket and Home Assistant. The bottom line was that buying a new one doesn’t pay off. But there’s more to it. Knowing how much it consumes per washing cycle I found an issue with the door microswitch which…
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How much electricity does 20y old dishwasher consume (Tuya Zigbee smart socket test)
Aliexpress Santa delivered a cheap (10€) Tuya smart socket (Zigbee version). I have several Aquara smart sockets (SP-EUC01) around the house that work really well in #homeassistant. But they cost 20-25€. I wanted to test the #Tuya smart socket this time. Not sure exactly which model it is, Aliex… markets it as “Homekit Tuya Smart…
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The water meter experiment failed successfully
This, my dears, this is how to fail spectacularly:I wanted to measure my home’s water consumption and track it in Home Assistant. I failed (for now). Read on to find out what happens if you buy all the correct components, follow the instructions but fail to check the type of the water meter first. I’ve…
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Sorry because of testing messages
Hi there! I’m trying to fix the #Activitypub plugin for #WordPress therefore you will probably see some random test messages. Sorry for that and please bear with me. I’d really like to make it work. There is a glitch somewhere in my home lab setup and I am still searching for the pattern. Sometimes the…
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Blogger to WordPress migration
Today I’ve managed to transfer my old (13+ years) blog posts from Google #Blogger (Blogspot) to #WordPress. It was surprisingly easy: Surprisingly, publication dates are intact. I’ve also noticed images are still linked to Blogger. At the same time, I find images from Blogger in my Media library. I’m puzzled.
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Energy dashboards in Home Assistant
I spent quite some time configuring the Energy dashboard in #homeassistant. My primary objective was to track how much electricity my home consumes, how much my micro #PV produces and how much I return to the grid. Finally, this is the result: Today is a cold and sunny day, so my heat pump consumes a…
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More on “Activitypub” and “Friends” plugin for WordPress
Let’s check what ‘Activitypub’ and ‘Friends’ plugins for WordPress do. After installing them, some widgets appear in the ‘add block’ menu: “Fediverse Followers” and the “Follow me on the Fediverse” are a part of “Activitypub” plugin. Thanx for correction, Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@notiz.blog / @pfefferle@mastodon.social) Let’s try it out: Example of ‘Fediverse followers’ widget. It shows…
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How to setup WordPress to publish posts to Fediverse
One of the reasons I’ve set up my WordPress server was because I heard it could be included in #fediverse as a regular #fediverse server. That’s great, right? All of my posts will appear in the timelines of people who follow me, right? In theory, yes and yes. But in reality, it’s not so easy.How…
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Tuya 3-phase energy meter and Home Assistant
The issue with spike power readings on phase B / So, if you bought a cheap (~70€) Tuya 3-phase zigbee energy meter (with 3 clamps), you’ve probably noticed strange readings on a phase B and C (39xxx W) in #homeassistant. See the spike: It happens to me when my micro-solar inverter exports energy to the…