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…
The Remote Serial Debugging Nightmare
Everybody playing around with hardware that has a serial port and is not located close to the desk will sooner or later run into the problem, that the wire simply…
Pushing the Rectangle Through the Round – Develop With RIOT OS on Windows – Doing The Impossible
Work in progress As many of you, I also have Windows 10 natively on my Notebook and don't want to switch to Linux, every time, I do some development 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…
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…
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.
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…