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New Smart Meter Broke Home Assistant in a Smart Home

New smart energy meters promised better logging, but it broke our Home Assistant install and long-term energy logging. Here’s what went wrong and how it’s affecting Home Assistant in our smart home

13 September 2024 9 min read
Home Automation

Amazon Echo Spot Teardown - Smart speaker with LCD

Welcome to a in-depth teardown of the 2024 Amazon Echo Spot Smart Speaker with LCD display. In this blog post, we'll be taking a closer look at the inner workings of this popular smart home device, uncovering the components that power its advanced features, and exploring its construction

11 September 2024 31 min read
Home Automation, Electronics

Twelve years of Raspberry Pi Development Boards

For over 12 years, AB Electronics UK has been designing and developing Raspberry Pi development boards. Throughout this time, we've gained extensive experience in developing high-quality circuit boards specifically designed for hobbyists and developers.

26 July 2024 7 min read
Raspberry Pi, Programming and Code

PartFinder 2.0 Core component inventory manager

This is a new release of the PartFinder component inventory manager I released four years ago in March 2020 which now runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

21 June 2024 11 min read
Programming and Code, Electronics

Trooli Fibre Internet and a new UniFi Dream Machine Pro Network Upgrade

We now have much faster internet thanks to a new fibre connection and internet using Trooli and upgrading from our PFSense firewall to a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro

03 May 2024 9 min read
General, Home Automation

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