I built a tiny physical energy dashboard for my home EMS, so I can glance at solar, battery, heat pump and dynamic prices without reaching for my phone 😉. Here's how I wired a Nextion display to a QuinLED-ESP32 and brought it all together with ESPHome and Home Assistant.

How I use solar panels, a heat pump, an EV charger, and a battery to run a (nearly) carbon neutral home. By combining Home Assistant and EVCC with dynamic energy pricing, I built a HEMS that maximizes self-consumption and minimizes costs.

I used to run Home Assistant supervised on a Intel NUC. It ran Debian, and apart from Home Assistant I also run a few Docker containers (Resilio Sync, Plex, ..). However, as I kept getting more warnings that my supervisor was in an unsupported state, I knew it was […]

Coming from a typed background (C#, Java and Kotlin), there were quite a few mistakes to be made when first starting React Native development in 2017. And oh boy we did make them 😆. We actually started using Flow (a static type checker for Javascript) right away, as it seemed to be the most mature […]

Just like many roads, bring you to Bruges, there are number of methods to update your Android build code. If I hear you think; “Android build code, what’s that again?”, let’s explain shortly. Every android apk or aab you make, has a version name and a version code. While the version name can be any […]

I’m a huge fan of Home Assistant. I use it at home 😉 to be less dependent on IoT clouds. I also use it to automate small energy saving things. Like turning the TV mood light on when something is playing. Or cutting power to my studio speakers when no music is playing 😎. I’ve […]

My most used terminal commands 🤪. File Machine Storage See how much disk space you have left Dependencies Aptitude User

What’s the best way to auto mount a usb drive or hard disk? What if the filesystem is ntfs? If you want to (permanently) mount a hard disk or usb drive to your debian based system, keep on reading! To get a list of connected usb disks you can: In the screenshot above you can […]