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Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker Teardown

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

28 November 2022 9 min read

ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter

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

30 October 2022 7 min read

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

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

08 October 2022 16 min read

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

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

22 September 2022 4 min read

USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios

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

08 September 2022 5 min read

myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi

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.

28 August 2022 7 min read

Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished

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

19 July 2022 7 min read

Home Assistant remote ESP32 ePaper Display

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

08 June 2022 9 min read

Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging

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

17 May 2022 26 min read

Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply Repair

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

06 April 2022 6 min read

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

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

26 March 2022 4 min read

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

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

13 March 2022 5 min read

Home Assistant Setup in 2022

This post details our journey with Home Assistant since we first tried the software in 2016 and various upgrades with our hardware sensors and software to automate some of our home.

18 February 2022 9 min read