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Rear Deck and Pergola
TODO – add photos and Sketchup model here
Portable Work Benches (aka Ron Paulk)
A long while ago I came across Ron Paulk‘s channel on YouTube and was impressed by some of his relatively simple design ideas, and decided I wanted some utility benches that were portable, easy to ...
Home Control: HabPanel Weather Widget
In my Home Control HabPanel the weather widget shows the forecast for today and the next four days, and is based on data from the free UK Met Office Datapoint service. Functionality requires thr...
Home Control: Zappi
The Zappi EV Charger is connected through a MyEnergi hub to the internet and measurements from the Zappi are available for viewing. The Zappi has current taps (CT) on all the main feeds of the syst...
Home Control: Setup SONOFF with Espurna
Requirements Latest version of the esptool.py tool, extracted in Downloads Check python version in Terminal: python –version [2.7.16] ...
Home Control: Lights
In the Home Control system there are a few remote-controlled lights from Philips Hue and Innr (compatible with Philips Hue but much cheaper). These are controlled by a Philips Hue bridge interfac...
Backup Raspberry Pi SD Card
Insert the SD Card into a card reader on the Mac. Open Terminal and enter the following command to locate the SD Card: diskutil list All disks will be listed, and will look something like below: ...
Home Control: Raspberry Pi
Running OpenHab on a Raspberry Pi. This also runs a MQTT server and Node-Red. Separate servers for SQL and Grafana are run on the main TITAN server and linked from the Pi as these are write-intensi...
Home Control: Overview
I have been looking to do some sort of Home Control for a while now, and was prompted to do something after reading some articles on the ESP8266 WiFi capable micro-controller from Espressif Systems...