I recently purchased some Libratone Zipp Mini speakers that were on offer and wanted a way to control these through Home Assistant. Without any public API available I found an awesome post by Benjamin Hanke documenting his journey on reverse engineering the basic controls for controlling this device. However I...

Our landlords installed a smart heating system into our apartment around 2 years ago. Consisting of a wall mounted tablet and some RF controlled radiator valves to allow us to control these on a schedule or via the control panel in the hall. The company which provides both the hardware...

I recently purchased my wife a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook as a replacement for her aging Dell laptop. Since she mainly using her laptop for surfing and light tasks it was a good choice from the reviews I read and at that price point. ChromeOS in it self is awesome...

In a previous post titled Flashing custom firmware on Gosund SP111 devices I wrote about how I achieved this by connecting the device to a serial connection. Having purchased what I believed to be the same product turned out to be the lower rated 2300W and look slightly older generation...

In this post I will explain how I hooked up our normal washing machine to provide some power usage insights, such as sending notifications that include the cycle time and power consumption. I’m using Home Assistant and leveraging Node-Red installed via an addon to provide the automation layer. By leveraging...