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…
How to Wire an EV Wall-Box (the economic perspective)
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…
Integrating wmBus devices into iobroker
Since I've replaced ioBroker with Home Assistant, I also wrote an article about integrating M-Bus devices via MQTT with HASS. Another post, doing the same with wmBus can be found…
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…
Kathrein EXIP 418 – Getting It Back To Work on Ubiquity Networks
I've installed a Kathrein Sat>IP-Server from Kathrein quite some time ago and it worked more or less flawlessly in the beginning. Also my Sat>IP-Receiver, I bought a few month ago…
STM32CubeMX and SDRAM
Sometimes, using CubeMX and the HAL, there is something missing. For SDRAM, it is the command sequence that need to be issued after initializing the FMC module. The SDRAM itself…
Penmount PCI Touch Controllers And I2C – Lost In Space
Forword I would suggest to use UART to talk to the Penmount Touch. This works much better since you can simply trigger on some UART interrupt (6 Byte and timeout…
Angular Web App on ESP32
In progress... TL;DR (take me to the battle field) Introduction and Motivation In some recent project, we added some ESP32 to replace wired communication with a BLE solution. Additionally, the…