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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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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Digital Ocean’s Load Balancer bandwidth
Load balancers are incredibly useful when a single server isn’t capable of handling the load or if you wan’t greater reliability. But what if bandwidth is the limiting factor, what…
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A year of cold showers
It’s now been well over a year since I started this habit. As a matter of fact, during this time I have replaced the warm showers all together. Update: It’s…
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jQuery resize-end event
Recently I was asked about jQuery’s resize event. It runs its resize while the users resizes the window – meaning it can be triggered hundreds of times before ending the…
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WordPress on Digital Ocean’s Managed MySQL Databases
Earlier this year Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases. At that time, only PostgreSQL was made available, and now MySQL and Redis have finally landed as well. I have now done…
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