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Sonoff Zigbee Dongle

13. January 2023

Flashing Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus using a mac

I use, and can highly recommend, the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus with my Home Assistant server (running ZHA). However, recently I had an issue where I added a new…

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17. October 2022

Water heater power monitoring in Home Assistant with Elko SmartPlug 16A

I wanted to monitor the power usage of our water heater. However, because it draws 3000W, there weren’t a ton of options for what smart plug to use that supported…

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10. December 2021

DigitalOcean API and CPU metrics from /proc/stat

TL:DR; DigitalOcean API returns /proc/stat data in its CPU metrics API, and here I’ll show you how to convert that to something usefull. After years of developers begging, DigitalOcean opened…

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24. October 2021

Review: Sensibo Air

Ever since we decided to get a heat pump in our house, I had my mind set on getting a Sensibo Sky. This is a device that makes your heat…

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4. November 2020

Combining Caddy with Nginx

If you have needs beyond what Caddy offers, you setup a reverse proxy to Nginx. Let’s look at an example where you would use Nginx for caching. I also added…

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4. November 2020

Review: Roborock S5 Max – Upgrading my robot vacuum after 6 years

In 2014 I bough our first robot vacuum. It was a Neato XV Signature Pro. This vacuum has been doing it’s job faithfully since then, but recently the screen died…

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