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, […]
