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I watch Twitch a lot, it’s like my background noise like other people listen to radio or podcasts or whatever. And Twitch has ads. Seriously loud and extremely annoying ads. Like everything else these days it seems. I also don’t want to block them, as I like to think that...

Another entry in my HomeAssistant posts. I now have a photovoltaic installation on my roof and as it is getting sunnier I have finally started delivering surplus energy to the grid. Unfortunately, the Kostal inverter does not provide that information, and I do not have a smart energy meter with...

I still use HomeAssistant to monitor and automate my house, from presence of anyone, to the status of my 3DPrinter to temperature and whatnot. Recently I wanted to add monitoring of my power consumption to the mix. Should be easy, right? Yeah, right…. First off, I have an LK13BE power...

I use Home Assistant to monitor and automated things around my house. When my ViFit connect step counter broke a few years ago (it was literally run over by a car) I was left without a step counter. Recently I found out that Home Assistant’s Android app also reported the...

This is something that infuriates me so much: Your website is NOT entitled to my keyboard shortcuts! If you think it is, you’re WRONG! I’m especially talking about Ctrl-T, Ctrl-K, /, Ctrl-W (especially!). You! Are! Not! Entitled! To! These! Unfortunately, Firefox allows this by default, which is stupid in itself....