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…
Integrating wmBus devices into iobroker
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…
Compile Ceph (master) on ARM (32-Bit)
I gave up on getting Ceph run on ARM 32 bit. It was a huge effort to fix the types, that diverge when switching from 64 to 32 bit. The…
How to Build A Private Storage Cluster (with Ceph)
Finally, I did not succeed in getting Ceph running on a 32 bit ARM. There have been to many issues in the code (especially incompatible datatypes) and issues with GCC…
ESP32-EVB, PlatformIO And ESP-IDF – Yet Another ESP32 tutorial
I already posted a tutorial on using the ESP32-EVB from olimex with Arduino. This time, I will provide the same with ESP-IDF, the original SDK from Espressif. Why I decided…
ESP32-EVB, PlatformIO And Arduino – Yet Another ESP32 tutorial
What the heck? Aren't there enough toturials out there about ESP32? I believe: Yes, too many. And there are too many that struggle with setting up the arduino environment for…