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…
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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…
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…