Ok, I'll accept it: Zigbee is way better than whatever WiFi connected crap you find out there, specially TUYA crap

* Doesn't need internet
* Has lots of features
* No spying
* No crappy apps
* It just works

I'm mad it took me YEARS to find this out

So I've been playing around with the sensors at home and found a curious pattern in the pressure histogram, it seemed like it followed a pattern.

So today we had thus huge internet service disruption and:
* Many things in my smart home failed
* Couldn't watch my series at the usual time
* Couldn't do a bunch of things I usually do.

Yeah... I need to retake my offline life project, good reminder.

So I needed a guide for my angle grinder and I thought: "Hey, I bet I can create this contraption to guide the grinder along the rails and..."

But then I thought: "I bet some else has already thought about it", and sure enough it has

rb.gy/t14j9y

After a huge hardware overhaul on the weekend, I'm back at getting sensors and gadgets to work with HA.

This thing is great!

So, as it turns out, even if Home assistant runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, the truth is that it doesn't work very well.

I'm upgrading to a PC, or rather I say an old laptop motherboard I had lying round which might have just enough juice for what I need, the thing is that it doesn't have a case (1/2)

Day two of "de-clouding" one power strip: The bugger is giving a fight, but now it shows on the network.

Step two: Actually make it work as it is supposed to

First victim: A HTL-331 Power strip, direct brain surgery.

There use to be a more straight forward way to do this a couple years ago, then it got patched

You know the saying: "There is no cloud, just someone else's computer".

So I'm gonna de-cloudify my home, or at least try