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Learning Code, Raspberry Pi, Fruit, and Growing Food

06 May 2023 3,748 views

May 2023 updates, website changes and projects and how we grow our own food on a small allotment

Air Quality in Your Home: Measuring using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning and Netatmo

15 January 2023 6,859 views

Using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning & Netatmo to measure the air quality in your home or office.

Energy Savings and Solar PV Upgrade, Six Months of Data

27 December 2022 5,191 views

After lots of small changes to our usage, device upgrades and replacing some old household appliances, our energy usage is around 45% lower

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker Teardown

28 November 2022 9,921 views

Taking a look inside the latest Amazon Echo Dot 5 smart home speaker and Amazon Alexa device, now with a new larger speaker and temperature sensor

ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter

30 October 2022 2,971 views

Using an ESP32 WiFi module to create a ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Solar PV Inverter to log data with Home Assistant

Ham Radio Asterisk Allstar Gateway with a Tait 8110 and Raspberry Pi

08 October 2022 5,841 views

Setting up the hardware and software for an AllStar Link Gateway using a Tait TM8110 which is a 25W PMR radio with a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card interface

Nest Thermostat to Home Assistant via 1-Wire, Arduino and MQTT

22 September 2022 5,424 views

Connecting our Nest Thermostat 3rd Gen to Home Assistant via 1-wire and an Arduino Uno to capture the 1-wire sensor data

USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios

08 September 2022 1,856 views

Making a USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8000 series PMR Radios to use as Ham Radio repeaters

myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi

28 August 2022 8,869 views

We got the new eddi V2.1 from myenergi with built-in WiFi and ethernet to add to our home solar system and Home Assistant.

Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished

19 July 2022 5,217 views

Our new 1.6kW solar array has now been fitted and is working much better than we expected

Home Assistant remote ESP32 ePaper Display

08 June 2022 17,295 views

Making a remote display using an ESP32 eInk ePaper module to show data from our Home Assistant system

Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging

17 May 2022 9,934 views

A new solar PV inverter installed with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging

Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply Repair

06 April 2022 2,141 views

Fault finding and repairing a Ham Radio Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply which had a hidden manufacturing defect on the PCB

Solar Panel Supplier Zero Home Bills Scammed me out of £640

26 March 2022 2,554 views

I fell for an online scam from a fake online store for solar panels and lost a lot of money

Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug with energy monitoring relay replacement

13 March 2022 3,568 views

Repairing a Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug which has a dead relay

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All projects and posts

Learning Code, Raspberry Pi, Fruit, and Growing Food

Air Quality in Your Home: Measuring using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning and Netatmo

Energy Savings and Solar PV Upgrade, Six Months of Data

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker Teardown

ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter

Ham Radio Asterisk Allstar Gateway with a Tait 8110 and Raspberry Pi

Nest Thermostat to Home Assistant via 1-Wire, Arduino and MQTT

USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios

myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi

Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished

Home Assistant remote ESP32 ePaper Display

Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging

Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply Repair

Solar Panel Supplier Zero Home Bills Scammed me out of £640

Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug with energy monitoring relay replacement

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