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May/24Home Assistant Constantly Refreshing
Update This has been removed in v2.11.2 and will fail to start if the configuration below is left in. I was seeing constant page refreshes on Home Assistant. In the end, it was changes to Traefik v2.11 and how it … Continue reading
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Apr/24Monitoring Boiler Flow Temperature
Overview I have a basic gas boiler in a conventional setup. After watching Heat Geek channel and their videos on heat pumps, I too wanted to look at how efficient my boiler was running. I did not want to make … Continue reading
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Mar/24Remove Windows Family Account
A quick post to a video on how to remove a Microsoft Family account from a computer. When you disable an account from logging into the computer, their profile and all associate files remain on the computer. This is not … Continue reading
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Feb/24Solar Assistant With EMQX Data Bridge
Overview My Growatt inverter has been lacking the integration to control the charging of the battery from the grid in Home Assistant. The feature exists in it’s own app and platform but it’s a real pain in the back side … Continue reading
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Jan/24Moes Zigbee Thermostat
Overview I have an electric underfloor heating in one of the rooms. It uses the old version of the ProWarm Pro Digital Thermostat. It has the usual controls for a non connected thermostat such as schedule and manual heating controls. … Continue reading
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Dec/23Smart Bulbs With Light Switches
Borrowing this idea from Tom McGuinness. This is the ultimate setup to allow features of a smart bulb like changing colours, Zigbee/Matter repeater and still retain the functional use of your light switch. The concept is to disconnect the bulb … Continue reading
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Nov/23MariaDB/MySQL Database Size Sensor In Home Assistant
A quick little tip to get the size of your database into Home Assistant. The example below will get the Home Assistant database size from MySQL. This should also work for MariaDB using the Recorder integration. Assuming the database schema … Continue reading
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Oct/23DigitalOcean Managed (Clustered) Database With WordPress
Overview I have an existing WordPress site running on DigitalOcean on a self managed instance (Droplet). It was time for an OS upgrade and generally I like to start from scratch rather than doing an in place upgrade. Ideally, I … Continue reading