Plays with tech.
Plays with tech.
Jeff Geerling recently made a great video where he explained how smart home solutions should be additive (i.e. when making a light “smart”, you should add smart functionality to it while you retain the ability to control it from the…
There are a few (conflicting) guides online that outline the process of setting up Cloudflare’s Dynamic DNS in OPNsense so I thought I’d create an up to date guide. So… why should you use a Dynamic DNS service? In a…
We recently moved into a house that has an ESB issued smart electricity meter (Kamstrup model 8660) in the utility cupboard outside of the house. Unfortunately the smart meter has no direct integration with Home Assistant so I needed to…
As part of my Raspberry Pi based travel router project, I setup a VPN client on the Pi using OpenVPN because that’s what I’m familiar with. Unfortunately the performance was pretty poor so I decided to move to Wireguard in…
Privacy focused “smart” doorbells seem to be few and far between so I decided to build one that integrates with Home Assistant via ESPHome and is easy to build. This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton…
Frustrated by the lack of fans that integrate with Home Assistant, I decided to modify this 120mm fan stand to include a compartment for a Wemos D1 mini and a buck converter. This allows us to run ESPHome on a…
OpenWrt is very fussy with USB WiFi adapters and I have only managed to get two adapters to work reliably – my old TP-Link WA722N v1.1 that has an Atheros AR9271L chipset and the Comfast CF-926AC which uses the MediaTek…
Updates: Wow, this post blew up – thanks to everyone who has been checking it out! 1. I’ve managed to get the oled display to work 🎉 check it out here -> Adding an OLED display to an OpenWrt router.2.…