Category: DIY
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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 < 21 turn on the pump,…
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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 are defined using UI by…
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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. Some mold grew under the…
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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 nylon, when it happened. Nylon…
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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 I stared to my Home…
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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 is probably just an illusion,…
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E-ink info screen at the front door
So I built a small E-ink (ESP32) info screen for the front door. Link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: When leaving the house, it’s nice to see some information displayed at the door, like temperatures, weather and messages for the kids etc. Actually, there is no…
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After 6 months of using Amazon Fire HD tablet and Home Assistant
After 6 months of using Amazon Fire HD tablet and Home Assistant Link to the original blog post with a nice text/pictures layout. I wrote about the FireHD tablet & Home Assistant: *** update 1. Aug. 2024 *** After half a year of using the Fire HD tablet for Home Assistant display, I can not…
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Hard drives, figs, birds and a scarecrow
Link to the original blog post with a nice text/pictures layout. The problem: Birds are eating figs in my backyard as soon as they’re ripe. Figs. Ripe figs. Not birds. I’d prefer to eat them unharmed. Figs. Not birds. The solution: There’s an IT solution to every problem. Even more, every problem can be solved…
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Running “Warrior” crowd web archiving software on Proxmox
Link to the original blog post with a nice text/pictures layout. Intro It’s like Seti@home, but for archiving the web. If you like me and hoard information, this project will be to your liking. “Warrior” software (aka ‘virtual appliance’) by ArchiveTeam (1) helps to preserve digital heritage by scraping and storing disappearing websites (like Blogger…