The HLK-LD2410C module is a human presence, distance and motion detection sensor using 24GHz millimeter wave radar. The boards I found are so small (22mm wide by 16mm high) that I wondered if I could add one to a wifi smart plug. That turned out to be easy, follow along for step by step instructions.
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Op de Ecopower website staat een pagina Prijs voor groene burgerstroom met daarop de energiekost, die kunnen we automatisch inlezen in Home Assistant met de Scrape integration.
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Release 2023.5 of Home Assistant introduced the new Voice over IP integration that enables talking to the HA voice assistant using a regular (analog) phone. The instructions currently only apply to the Grandstream HT801 and HT802 analog phone adapters. After some trial and error, I managed to call Home Assistant from a SIP phone registered on my FreePBX VoIP server. Continue reading for more details on how to configure this in FreePBX.
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The QNAP TS-435XeU NAS can run containers, can we set it up to run Home Assistant?
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Practical information for my Aan de slag met ESPHome en HomeAssistant workshop at Fri3d Camp 2022. Still a work in progress…
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Setting up High Availability on pfSense is not that difficult. It consists of configuring the state and settings synchronization (pfsync), creating virtual IPs (CARP) and changing the settings for DHCP, DNS and NTP so that you clients use the virtual IP. But things get tricky if you have only 1 IPv4 WAN address and it is assigned via DHCP by your ISP. If CARP is not an option for the WAN interface, how can we make sure we get the same public IP address on both firewalls?
Continue reading Pin DHCP WAN interface to LAN for pfSense CARP/HA
Telenet is an ISP in Belgium that provides its customers with IPv6. Everywhere I looked on the net I read that you should configure your firewall with a /56 IPv6 prefix, but I could not get it to work with my modem in bridging mode. I got it working after changing it to /60. Read along for the full explanation
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Have you tried turning it off and on again? Sad but true, it really helps sometimes. In my particular case I have this Gigaset Maxwell 10 VoIP phone that sometimes loses its SIP registration on my FreePBX server. Manually rebooting the phone remediates the problem, but let’s automate that…
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You can use your Logitech Harmony Hub to remote control KODI on a Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth. You do not need an IR receiver on the Raspberry Pi. The Harmony website does not clearly explain how to do this, so read on for more detailed instructions.
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My Opel Vivaro had a broken dashboard light for the back-light of the ventilation and heating controls. The right side was OK but the left side was dark Continue reading Making replacement bulbs for a car dashboard