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Heater-on-light tracking using Home Assistant

Living in a house with Aterno resistive electric heating, I wanted to get a feel of how our thermostat settings and outside temperature impacts our electricity bill.

I did not want to change the electric installation to add invasive interfacing like current sensing, and hacked a ZigBee door sensor to report on the heater's status LED.

Dated 2021-11-09 22:15 · hass hacks zigbee

Embedded artists Game/Bluetooth board

I wrote this article on using a microprocessor board with GNU tools for an embedded software class back in 2006. It's written in Dutch.

Dated 2006-01-01 00:00 · teenager hacks

Vim 8051 assembler syntax file

I wrote this syntax highlighting file for Vim because I had an Intel 8051 course in 2005, and wanted to do my coding in Vim. It's totally optional to have syntax highlighting, but it does give you many advantages. This .syn file will make sure recognised mnemonics and registers are …

Dated 2006-01-01 00:00 · hacks vim