After migrating from iobroker to Home Assistant, I lost the level of my oil tank in my smart home, being forced to have a look into the smartphone app. That…
Get Your Personal Oil Well Level – Integrating OilFox Into Home Assistant using node-red
EEX, EPEX SPOT And The Real Net-(In)transparency
Have you ever been interested in the current EEX or more correctly the EPEX SPOT prices? If so, you quite certainly stumbled over the EPEX SPOT Home or the Energy…
Limiting EV Charge SOC with go-echarger and Home Assistant – Update
How to limit charging to a predefined SOC with go-echarger and Home Assistant if your car does not support this feature.
Ultrasound Distance Module Overview
I just thought about implemententing a small ESPhome based ultrasound water level module, when I realized, that I have none of my modules left. Maybe I gave the last one…
Taking Your M-Bus To The Next Level… MQTT
Introduction First of all, why would you do this? Many people own an appartment and want to measure the heat, water, electricity flow to the people living there. Others just…
Reverse Engineering the Buderus KM217 – And Making It WiFi-Flying on ESPhome and Home Assistant
The PCB for this project was sponsored by PCBway. And I really liked what I received. I ordered a few times in the past and always received excellent PCBs from…
How to Wire an EV Wall-Box (the economic perspective)
Have you ever planned to install some wall-box for your new electric car? You have some technical/electrical skills but you are not sure, which wire to run from your building…
Think Sustainable, TH!NK City (reanimated) – Work in Progress
Ever heard about the TH!NK City electric car? No? Before I got asked to help bringing it to life again, I also didn't. In fact, if you do not count…
wmBus Meters And How To Get It Into Home Assistant
Recently, I decided to switch over to Home Assistant due to instability of iobroker. Maybe I had too many adapters, slaves or what else... Somehow it did not function properly…
Windows (was) just a pain
Since I use Linux at home and love to develop embedded, backend and (web)-fronteds within a real operating system, I sometimes get crazy at work, when I just search for…