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…
Getting Rid of Nasty Underground Neighbours – IoT Mouse Trap
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Smart Home Controlled Joy-IT Lab Power Supply
OK, you'll definitely believe, moles are crazy. You would ask, for what do you need a laboratory power supply that is controlled by your smart home (Home Assistant)? It's easy,…
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…
Mole’s Underground Heating System Can Not Be Over-Engineered 😋 (work in progress)
OK Guys, this could turn out to be a very long post since it will condense the work I've done over the past year in my basement. Maybe you will…
Some Thoughs On The M-Bus
After some discussion on the home assistant community forum about ESPhome and the M-Bus and the M-Bus in general, I decided to write a little post about the baiscs of…