I have been tearing my hair out the last couple of weeks while trying to set up a nice Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant. When I thought everything was working fine, I suddenly got consumption values and cost multiplied by…
Is your energy provider not giving easy access to energy prices? Costly, difficult or impossible to get access to an API? Tired of checking web sites for updated information, or missing out on changes silently published? Change Detection might be…
My Video Surveillance System of choice is Frigate (especially since version 0.14). Having a Google Coral TPU for object detection is practically mandatory. Running Frigate on Proxmox with an M.2 Coral TPU is not straight forward. I have found a…
Sometimes when trying to wipe a disk in Proxmox, the system gives an error message “disk/partition has a holder (500)”. This error typically comes when the disk in question has already been used, and contains a logical volume. This “old”…
To keep track of energy cost and consumption in Home Assistant, an excellent tool to use is the Energy Dashboard. One thing a bit tricky with this is to track daily subscription cost. Most subscriptions are monthly, and I have…
Our garage door opener is a Somfy Dexxo Pro that is communicating via RTS. This means there is no return information from the motor on whether the garage door is open or closed. In Home Assistant the Garage Door Device…
We have an Itron Water Meter with an Everblu Cyble optical reader. The water company is regularly (every 2-3 months) passing in the street with their car, and a computer sends a radio signal to every meter (using a unique…
My production Proxmox-server is never really running on idle. Frigate Video Surveillance and Home Assistant is pretty much keeping the server at around 8-10% CPU usage. 24 hours average power consumption has been around 50-54 Watts. A few factors that…
This post was written in Obsidian. A draft was posted to this site with the Obsidian Community Plugin for WordPress. It’s even possible to insert pictures…
For the last couple of months I have been looking for a markdown-compliant note-taking application that would suit my needs: Client application on Windows, Linux, ChromeOS and Android (with “Send To”-integration). Synchronised on all devices, self-hosted and free.