Or: Why Flower Power and Clay Soil Don't Mix – A Mole's Tale of Moisture, Microcontrollers, and Minor Excavations They say moles love the damp. That may be true out…
The Great Flood – How I Turned My Living Room into a High-Tech Sump Pit
Fresh Air for Mole Holes – Dyson Floor Nozzle Revived
Molewife Causes Axle Failure in Tunnel Ventilation Unit Everything was running smoothly in the subterranean cleaning department — until the Molewife took a sharp corner a little too enthusiastically with…
Crying on Open Waters – A Piece of HW for AhoyDTU and Reading the Hoymiles Inverters
It's quite some time ago, I wrote my last blog post. But I had a lot to do and there have been quite action, creating some material for new posts.…
Reverse Engineering the Buderus KM271 – And Making It WiFi-Flying on ESPhome and Home Assistant
If you bought one of my modules recently, it is also worth looking at the how-to project page for this module :-) There is a new method available to flash…
Doing the Undone – Decoding SML or Hacking the Tibber Raw Data
The Problem I Encountered... Just after installing the Pulse IR and the Tibber Bridge, I was quite a bit frustrated about the continuity of the Tibber data. This was not…
Taming The Cephodian Octopus – Reef
My Ceph Cluster runs now! And it is amizingly powerful :-) Updates for Ceph Reef. Quincy is not yet the latest release anymore, I reinstalled my cluster with Reef (now…
Getting Rid of Nasty Underground Neighbours – IoT Mouse Trap
As a mole, you sometimes have the same problems like humans: Nasty neighbours. In my case, mice. I have a cat named Tommy (his full name is Thomas Alva Edison…
Intensive Underground Metering – An RJ45 Breakout for Connecting Your Meters Through Ethernet Cabling
Again, I quickly developed a gadget to ease my life as a data collecting mole. ModBus adapters mostly have three drawbacks. Firstly, they have open wires, secondly, if you route…
In The Heat Of The Night – 1-Wire Temperature Sensor Directly Immersed
As always, I want to first quickly explain, what brought me to that project... If you look around in different stores and on aliexpress, you can find a ton of…
Code Red on Fire – Or Heat-Metering with Node-Red
OK, guys, as you may have noticed when reading my post about my new heating system, I have three heat meters installed that have M-Bus connectivity. I also wrote some…