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>Integrating a Lux Power Inverter with Home AssistantAfter having solar installed I wanted to get it integrated into home assistant to enable historical monitoring and also automation around my home.2023-08-08 #home-assistant#lux-powertek#greenlinx · 4 min
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>A Pythonic way to alias methods?An alias method allows accesses to the original method via a different name. You can define your own alias method by adding the statement a = b to your class...2023-08-08 #python#aliases#method · 3 min
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>Add series links to Jekyll postsCreating blog posts for my website I sometimes find that I want top create multiple articles as part of a series, usually because I have done some research a...2023-06-09 #Jekyll#how-to · 4 min
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>Last4Solar - My solar nightmare!At the end of 2022 I came into some inheritance, with the massive energy price increase in the UK I decided to spend this money on a solar and battery instal...2023-06-02 #solar#battery · 13 min
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>Automating deployments using Terraform with Proxmox and ansibleOver the years my home lab has grown and become more and more difficult to maintain, especially because some servers I build and forget as they function so w...2023-05-06 #terraform#proxmox#ansible · 8 min
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>Use Python pandas NOW for your big datasetsOver the past few years I have been working on processing large analytical data sets requiring various manipulations to produce statistics for analysis and b...2023-03-29 #pandas#bigdata#dataframes · 7 min
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>How I host this siteMy site isn’t anything special, but I thought I’d like to share how I create and host things for others who may be interested in sharing their own words with...2023-02-25 #jekyll#github#pages · 6 min
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>Home Assistant medication notification using Node-REDFor around 4 years I have had to take medication for Rheumatoid Arthritis once every two weeks, I always forget when I last took the medication and end up sk...2023-01-06 #nodered#ha#home-assistant · 6 min
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>Creating a standalone zigbee2mqtt hub with alpine linuxI have began sorting out my smart home again, I let it run to ruin a year or so ago and now I’m getting solar installed I wanted to increase my automation to...2022-12-15 #zigbee2mqtt#zigbee#alpine · 8 min
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>Configuring Homer DashboardIn my last article I talked about how to setup Homer dashboard with Docker, now I will walk through some of the features and how to use them.2022-10-16 #homer#docker#container · 3 min