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Thursday, 13 April 2023

Flashing WLED to WT32-ETH01

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The WT32-ETH01 is an ESP32 board that includes a 100Mb ethernet port. They usually cost around £15 in the UK and are great for driving pixel...
Tuesday, 11 April 2023

WireGuard VPN between MikroTik RouterOS v7 and FRITZ!Box 7530

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MikroTik routers are very flexible but are sometime complex to configure. FRITZ!Box routers take a different approach and have a simpler int...
Friday, 2 April 2021

Energenie MIHO109 - Converting to Tasmota

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

Samsung 27" LCD TV BN44-00506A power supply repair

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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 ...
Wednesday, 24 March 2021

HP Microserver N40L RAID errors

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  The HP MicroServers (N36L/N40L/N56L) were bargains when they first released costing around £100 after cashback. Although their CPUs are pr...
Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Home Assistant control of Mitsubishi MCFZ-A24 WV A/C - Part 3

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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...
Friday, 12 March 2021

Home Assistant control of Mitsubishi MCFZ-A24 WV A/C - Part 2

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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...