“Since when is eggnog a Christmas drink? Eggs are available all year ’round. I’ve been known to enjoy this poolside.” – Sheldon Cooper. Ever since I’ve had a Blueriiot Blue Connect Plus for my swimming pool, I’ve been pulling the data into Home Assistant. Originally it was with an IFTTT interface – but that has […]
I’ve been using the Portainer add-on from the Home Assistant add-on repository for quite a while now, and using it to manage several docker hosts. I recently went to add a few Kubernetes clusters as endpoints for Portainer only to realise that the add-on was Portainer 1.x instead of 2.x (which doesn’t support Kubernetes). It […]
“I know why you’re here, Neo” – Trinity. It looks like Actron have brought out another air conditioner control system – the Neo. It seems to be similar to the Que, although owning neither – I’m not entirely sure. The API definition certainly looks similar between them – similar, not identical. I’ve started adapting the […]
I recently started work on my second add-on for Home Assistant. Unfortunately, that meant a lot more time with the Home Assistant add-on builder. I’d been finding that using the add-on builder was often taking an hour to build the container based add-on, for the four platforms for which I build (e.g. i386, amd64, armv7..). […]
I recently bought a DETA Grid Connect Smart Switch from Bunnings, with the plan being to integrate them with Home Assistant, using ESPHome, or other user-provided code. I actually didn’t use ESPHome, but rather pushed my own code/image to the device. The device uses an ESP8266 compatible chip, with a product code of TYWE3S. I’ve […]
“Gentlemen, I am now about to send a signal from this laptop through our local ISP, racing down fiber-optic cable at the speed of light to San Francisco, bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to Lisbon, Portugal, where the data packets will be handed off to submerged transatlantic cables terminating in Halifax, Nova Scotia, […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 