Category: Hardware
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Home Assistant: WP6003 Air Box
I recently got a WP6003 Air Box (Aliexpress). The official product page seems to be offline but can be accessed through Archive.org. It’s quite straightforward to integrate in a Bluetooth Proxy and Home Assistant thanks to Omar’s work. The major problem I have with it, is that the Bluetooth (4.0) range is terrible. Neither my…
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Home Assistant: Zigbee routers
In my Home Assistant quest and simplifying (not sure if that’s actually happening) and getting more control (aka less reliant on the cloud and 3rd parties) I’ve been playing with Zigbee. Zigbee is quite cool because it’s a mesh network. As I used it before with my Philips Hue bulbs, I was eager to expand…
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Home Assistant: Getting rid of Philips Hue bridge
In my Home Assistant quest and simplifying (not sure if that’s actually happening) and getting more control (aka less reliant on the cloud and 3rd parties) I’ve been playing with Zigbee. Zigbee is quite cool because it’s a mesh network. As I used it before with my Philips Hue bulbs, I was eager to expand…
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Home Assistant: Assign entities to areas
I’ve finally started working with Home Assistant and while the learning curve has been steep, it’s been fun. I’m going to post some random notes (mostly for myself) on things I discovered, and I need to keep in mind. For example, I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer. I’ve…
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Home Assistant: ESP32-C3 Bluetooth proxy
I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer (and I have a few other BLE sensors that I haven’t managed to set up yet). The proxy config can be found here. Be sure to modify the variables to match whatever you want to do. I’m using static IPs because auto…
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Game Boy
Seeing this makes me want to get one and keep it for Ila to play on when she’s a bit older. I guess this is why every couple of months I go back to check Playdate and am tempted to get one (knowing very well I won’t really play it much)…
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RPi kernels in Bookworm
Raspberry Pi recently launched Bookworm, and with that, a new kernel package. However, due to the massive changes from Bullseye to Bookworm, they are not suggesting a dist-upgrade. In the past, we have suggested procedures for updating an existing image to the new version, but always with the caveat that we do not recommend it,…
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Script to display Mac battery information
You can see how this script makes that couple very happy. Quick and dirty script that shows your Mac battery information (health, cycles, etc). If an Apple keyboard or mouse is connected, it’ll also display the battery % of those. Outputs something similar to this (no mouse or keyboard connected): This works on zsh and…
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PoC: Betteruptime + Python-kasa
Content Update The provided scripts have been updated on 16 Jul 2023. Specifically the SmartStrip part was not working as intended. I’ve been a big fan of Betteruptime. I’ve started using it to monitor all my assets online (websites, DNS, ping, successful script runs) as well as my servers (using heartbeats). I have a few…
