A few days ago, I received an IEC 62196 to Schuko (German Plug) adapter, to be able to draw 230V from a wall-box or public charger. I'll replace the Schuko…
Get The Hell Out Of My Wall-Box… or How To Make Cheap Type-2 Adapter Cables Not So Sticky…
How To Open Your Zipper – Use Fuse To Browse Archives
Since I did many Backups of important folder in former times using 7z (one snapshot had 14 GB), I was searching for a way to access it more easily. For…
Just Do It – How To Create Your Own Home Assistant Add-On – Part 1
Since quite some time, I ever wanted to automate the process of creating the annual bills for the renters of the one half of my house. I also integrated the…
Get Your Personal Oil Well Level – Integrating OilFox Into Home Assistant using node-red
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
The Magic Of Absolute Humidity
Introduction When we moved from our flat to our house back in 2015, I soon realized, that the old part of the house (built in the fifties) has some problems…