Category: IT
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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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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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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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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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Howdy
It was 1995 when I created my first homepage. It was called ‘Junkyard’, written in plain HTML and run on University’s VAX/VMS server. It’s long gone. Meanwhile, I’ve used other hosting places like Google’s Blogger and Linkedin. 28 years later, this is another attempt at my web presence. Recently I’ve set up my own WordPress…
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Regulacija ogrevanja z Aqara IoT
Kako najenostavneje regulirati ogrevanje z Aqara IoT pritiklinami? Pred kratkim sem hišni ogrevalni sistem razširil s četrto vejo, ki je namenjena ogrevanju kletne etaže in pisarne. Obstoječe 3 ogrevalne veje (talno, radiatorsko in bojler) mi uspešno krmili regulacija Seltron WDC20. Ta regulacijski sistem je poln – nima več prostih relejev, vhodov za senzorje, niti nima…
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Učenje in muke z Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless
Po 15 letih, odkar sem nehal s programiranjem, me je spet zamikalo. Nabavil sem mini računalnik RaspberryPi Zero Wireless + kamera modul za namene učenja. Cilj tega učenja je, da bi lahko naučil svoje otroke dela z njim. Obljubljajo enostavno delo z njim, vendar ugotavljam, da je vse prej kot to. Po skoraj dveh mesecih…