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Here is how to create a simple PHP script to send a water meter and other metrics in to Home assistant. You will need the MQTT addon for this to work. Code for configuration.yml PHP Code to push a meter reading in to Home Assistant. You will need the package phpMQTT from git hub https://github.com/bluerhinos/phpMQTT…
Installation and initial set up Download the Hyper-V image from https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/windows/ Load the appliance image into your virtual machine hypervisor. Minimum recommended assignments: After creation go to “Settings” -> “Security” and deselect “Enable Secure Boot”. Adding Home Assistant Community addons profile > enable advanced Settings > Addons > “Terminal & SSH” Open terminal and run…
We have all seen and used those URL shorting sites. It takes a very long link and converts it to a short link for emailing. When you click the short link it takes you to the link website address. Below I thought I would make my own. Feel free to use the below to make…
So my story beings like so many people in this country with storage heaters. Dumb storage heaters that have no real control. You either turn them on or charge them during the night and let the heat out during the day. This was not what I wanted. I wanted more control over the temperature in…
So over the last few weeks i have been looking at how to lock and unlock my front door. This is handy if your out and a friend wants to drop something off etc, you could also link a CCTV cam to the system etc. but this this im just going to show the parts…
Introduction When choosing to have solar Panels you can either plug the 12 volt ends in to your 12 volt application and have it run while the sun is out or, direct the power in to a battery bank, for using at a later date. There are 3 main ways to connect your batteries Series, Parallel, and…
Recently i have been looking at loads of opensource routers, Such as M0n0wall, Smoothwall, PFsense, etc. Then i came acros Vyatta (http://www.vyatta.org) Vyatta comes in two flavours, subscription and Core. The subscription version has loads more features like a GUI, however the Opensource version Core, just has a CLI with pretty much the same feature…
I would highly recommend the youview service to people who just want to view Freeview and online content from BBC Iplayer and other players. The box is a re branding of the Humax hdr-fox t2, which in my opinion is a nice freeview box, over all for people who don’t want a paid subscription to…
Introduction A load balancer setup can share load between multiple FS hosts according to load. A single ingress IP can be presented to the customer for the entire cluster simplifying the customer configuration (this can be combined with DNS SRV to give failover between data centres). The load balancer will measure load on each server in the…
The articles explains how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 12.04, to instructions are step by step and I use the latest version of WordPress using the .dpkg package from apt. To start off with install install the Ubuntu WordPress package with: apt-get install wordpress php5-gd This should pull down and install everything you need to…