Kris's Blog

  The MIHO109 smart plug is different from most Energenie devices because it communicates directly with their cloud service via WiFi. Althou...

This 27" LCD TV is around 10 years old and suddenly stopped working with a pop. Given it's age there was nothing to lose by seeing ...

  The HP MicroServers (N36L/N40L/N56L) were bargains when they first released costing around £100 after cashback. Although their CPUs are pr...

With the hardware built and Tasmota compiled the final piece is to link it up to Home Assistant.  I am using the built-in MQTT broker and Ta...

In part 1 I described how I decoded the IR signal from the original remote and modified Tasmota to send commands the A/C unit was happy with...

I was looking for things to automate with Home Assistant and the air conditioning in the conservatory should have been an easy win. The A/C ...