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2025

Controlling smart devices via NSPanel (Tasmota) December 16
Extracting multipart tgz archive from Google Takeout November 13
Huntress 2025 Cyber Awareness Month CTF November 7
Automatically generate cover for blog post March 4
Flashing the Sonoff POWR3 with Tasmota February 12
Sending my first webmention from scratch January 21
Bridging this blog with the Fediverse January 2
New year, new theme for the site January 1

2024

Flashing the IKEA Vindriktning with Tasmota and ESPHome September 4
Home Assistant Container Part 13: VS Code code-server February 12
Flash Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC BLE sensor with Zigbee firmware February 9

2023

Remotely opening and closing my garage December 14
2 months in October 16
Belgian ESPHome config for Slimmelezer(+) by Marcel Zuidwijk August 18
I've been chipped and am getting training July 31
So I'm diabetic ... July 30
Darebee daily challenge on Home Assistant dashboard July 18
Ulanzi TC001 Desktop Clock - Awtrix March 30
Manage Mercedes EV preconditioning from Home Assistant February 24
Manage Mercedes EV battery charge target from Home Assistant February 20
Flashing NSPanel with Tasmota and NSPanel Lovelace UI January 14

2022

Home Assistant Container Part 12: Migrating to Podman December 2
Home Assistant Container Part 11: Bluetooth support November 25
Home Assistant Container Part 10: Zigbee2MQTT October 4
Home Assistant Container Part 9: ESPHome September 15
Home Assistant Container Part 8: Update Home Assistant Container September 11
Home Assistant Container Part 7: Backing up Home Assistant Container September 9
Home Assistant Container Part 6: Editing configuration.yaml from within Home Assistant September 8
Home Assistant Container Part 5: Node-RED September 7
Home Assistant Container Part 4: Mosquitto Docker Container September 5
Home Assistant Container Part 3: MariaDB and InfluxDB September 3
Home Assistant Container Part 2: Home Assistant Container September 2
Home Assistant Container Part 1: Install Debian, Docker and Portainer August 31
Motion-triggered LED strip with relays to minimize power consumption July 14
Disabling Quick Glance (Discover) on OnePlus July 6

2021

Shelly Plus setup and Home Assistant integration November 5
AliExpress 11-11 sales October 31
Reading Ginlong Solis inverter over serial and importing in Home Assistant over MQTT August 29
Monitoring electricity consumption and production with Shelly 3EM and Home Assistant's Energy Dashboard August 18
Playing webradio (and other audio) from Lovelace dashboard August 14
Migrating from HDD to SSD August 5
Detecting Pegasus spyware on your smartphone August 1
Add an ePaper display to your ESP32 (Waveshare) July 9
Automating my lights at the toilet room May 13
DIY Ambilight for your TV or computer using a RPi and Hyperion April 18
ESP32-cam and ESPHome March 25
Shelly ColoT unicast March 22
Shelly FAQ February 17
ATTINY85 Rubber Ducky February 3
Shelly Web UI method January 19
Circadian lighting with IKEA TRADFRI lightbulbs and Home Assistant January 18
Room temperature monitoring using Xiaomi temperature sensor, ESP32 and ESPHome January 12

2020

Force update/downgrade Shelly firmware November 25
Adding Xiaomi Aqara Door and Window Sensor to HA via deCONZ (ConBee II) November 12
MQTT templates for Shelly devices October 26
Getting started with MQTT and Home Assistant (and Shelly) October 12
Garbage Collection Schedule and Notification September 17
Upgrade your SSH keys (to Ed25519) September 11
Intro into Shelly July 24
Gitlab unauthenticated group and project enumeration June 8
Nest June 8
QuickR May 10
Openadmin May 4
Sauna April 21
Installing Folding@home to fight COVID-19 April 18
Migrating from Wordpress to Hugo March 28
Infiltration March 26
Easy Phish March 26
Pi-hole vs Phishing March 20
Traceback March 18
Challenge write-ups March 8
Traverxec January 24
Bandit (30 -> 34) January 17
Bandit (20 -> 30) January 15
Bandit (10 -> 20) January 9
Bandit (0 -> 10) January 7

2019