Time to record some of my exploits, so I can remember what I did and possibly help someone else along the way.

I'm still working my way around Grav plugins to get everything working as I want it. It seems that many plugins are no longer maintained, and have issues working.

The Comments plugin still doesn't work for me, even after lots of searching for clues to the puzzle, and much tweaking.

Home Assistant Projects

I have a few projects in mind to add to the home assistant.

Irrigation I have some moisture sensors still to implement, once I figure out how to maximize the existing cat5e cable to the solenoids. I have most of the parts ready to start. I did consider moving the relays to the solenoid end, but s...

Home Assistant
Why Modbus

Modbus isn't most Home Assistant users first thought when connecting to devices. Most probably think wireless, but modbus has it's merits.

Reliability and power over the cabling are two good reasons to use it.

Coupled with a low cost or DIY modbus tcpip to RS485 gateway to avoid the often unreli...

Home Assistant modbus
Home Assistant

I run Home Assistant as a container on a Raspberry Pi 3B with Devuan Linux.
It has two networks, fully isolating most attached devices from the internet.
Current integrations include Irrigation, Tasmota, Xiaomi Miot, Synology and MQTT.

  • MQTT for Beken and an older tasmota smart switch - electri...
Home Assistant