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It's the start of a new year and everyone is making new resolutions, many wishing they would be more "productive" in the next 12 months or decrease the time they're procrastinating. I did this too in the past years, always trying to increase my produ...
A few weeks ago, I decided to track my credit card expenses in Home Assistant, and also notify me or my wife if any one of us made a payment from the shared bank account. The goal was to track our expenses without having to manually add them in an ap...
I have a few temperature sensors from Hue and Xiaomi, but they all show different temperatures. Sure, the variations are not that big, around 1 degree Celsius, but I would like to calibrate them before placing them in various rooms. To do that I firs...
One of the downsides when working from home is the sedentary lifestyle. We tend to sit more and take less breaks than we would usually do in an office, and over time that takes a toll on our backs and necks. I thought I fixed this by buying a standin...
I have a small side project made with Blazor WebAssembly and although it's great for my needs, the debugging experience is very poor. Lucky for us, this was greatly improved in .NET 5 and I wanted to try it out immediately. The migration was quite ea...
A few months ago I heard about the auto-entities plugin and I decided to try it out. The result? A card that shows me the active power consumers in the house so I can turn any of them off easily. Here's how it looks like: In this blog post I'm goi...