Home Automation

I try to tinker with gadgets around the house. Mostly because it’s fun to work on things that have a connection to the physical world. To that end, I’m also maintaining a few open source projects:

Home Assistant Custom Components

Amphiro Digital Hand Shower – Reads sensor data from the Amphiro Digital Hand Shower via Bluetooth for tracking water and energy usage.
April Brother (AB) BLE Gateway V4 – Forwards BLE advertisement data from the April Brother BLE Gateway V4 to Home Assistant’s Bluetooth integration.
HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) – A drop-in replacement for the official HP iLO integration with a lot more features and easier setup.

TRMNL Plugin

MeteoSwiss – A weather plugin for TRMNL that fetches accurate Swiss forecasts from MeteoSwiss.

All Posts about Home Automation

My Custom TRMNL Setup For Our Home

Setting up a TRMNL display at home and building three custom plugins for local weather, the SBB station board, and a simplified family calendar.

How to Add the Amphiro Hand Shower to Home Assistant

Looking into how to reverse engineer a funky christmas present and building out a new Home Assistant integration for it.

Forwarding Bluetooth with the April Brother BLE Gateway

We recently moved and I decided to buy a BLE->IP gateway off AliExpress to increase coverage in the bigger place. Turns out this needed some hacking to get it to work with Home Assistant.

HP iLO Integration for Home Assistant

I have been using a HP Microserver for a few years as my home lab and quite enjoy it. Unfortunately Home Assistant’s existing HP Integrated Lights-Out (ILO) integration is very limited and does not have any configuration integration. I have started working on an updated version of this integration. For the initial release, I focused on three things: Auto-Discovery with config flow so no configuration.yaml editing will be required. Support for as many sensor types automatically out of the box. Updating python-hpilo. ...

Sensirion SCD4x CO₂ Home Assistant Integration

I recently added support support for the Sensirion SCD4x CO₂ Gadget to the Passive BLE Monitor integration for Home Assistant.