James Gibbard - Abstracting on the Sholders of Giants

Intex Spa / Hot Tub Wifi Controller (ESP8266) + Home Assistant

Using the work of @UlrichMai as a base, I've built a fully automated wifi controller for my Intex Hot Tub. The original controller was manual, with no remote abilities. Using what Ulrich has already done, I set about removing the HomeKit support, as I indented to integrate it with Home

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Updated: Mail To 2Do apps

It's been a while... but the To2Do apps are being updated to work with Big Sur :) The first app (MailTo2Do) has been updated and is available here: https://bit.ly/mailto2do-v210 The other apps will be updated soon. If you'd like to donate towards my running costs of this site

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Velux Blind + Home Assistant - IOT Project

My goal is to create a fully automated blind, with the ability to control it via Amazon Alexa devices and Home Assistant. In order to do this I will be planning on using: Velux KLI 310 - Solar Blind Controller Wemos Mini D1 Micro-controller (built in Wifi & ESP8266 chip)

First post in a while...

Welcome to the new blog format. Its a change from the big bloated WordPress blog of old. Currently I'm working with tools like: Terraform Ansible Rundeck Jenkins NodeJS ReactJS MongoDB I'll be writing some posts in the near future about some of these tools, including some #IoT based articles. Mosty