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  • Regain Local Control to Smart Panel Heater

    Regain Local Control to Smart Panel Heater

    It’s time for an update on my Arlec panel heater (Model PEH223HA) after I partially lost control of the device in Home Assistant. So, here are the steps that I took to regain access.

  • Smarter Swimming Pool 6: Chlorinator

    Smarter Swimming Pool 6: Chlorinator

    My old pool chlorinator motor broke and instead of forking out another $600 on an overpriced pool accessory I decided to fix it using a new reduction gear motor, connect it to an ESP and control dosing liquid chlorine via Home Assistant.

  • Breathe better with this Indoor Air Quality Sensor

    Breathe better with this Indoor Air Quality Sensor

    Still holding your breath after building your outside air quality sensor? Well, here comes the sequel where you are going to learn how to build a really simple but powerful indoor air quality sensor and how to process and present the sensor readings in Home Assistant.

  • Winter is coming – Local Control for Smart Panel Heater

    Winter is coming – Local Control for Smart Panel Heater

    Two winters ago in 2019 I bought an Arlec smart panel heater from Bunnings and finally took some time to integrate it into Home Assistant. Luckily it was old enough so that tuya convert worked without any problems. Initially I thought the heater would have the usual ESP-MCU combination built in, so I tried going…

  • Sparkling Lights – WS2812B fairy light with WLED

    Sparkling Lights – WS2812B fairy light with WLED

    With many of my neighbours putting up their decorative light shows for Christmas I was wondering if there would be something new on the market to replace the old solar powered fairy lights on our terrace which were cheap but kept dying every other year or so. So, I found a WS2812B based fairy string…