Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply Repair
06 April 2022 6 min read
Fault finding and repairing a Ham Radio Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply which had a hidden manufacturing defect on the PCB
Electronics
Hands-on electronics projects, documented with the detail you need.
Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug with energy monitoring relay replacement
13 March 2022 5 min read
Repairing a Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug which has a dead relay
Home Assistant Setup in 2022
18 February 2022 8 min read
This post details our journey with Home Assistant since we first tried the software in 2016 and various upgrades with our hardware sensors and software to automate some of our home.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod
06 December 2021 6 min read
Modifying a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to add an external antenna with a U.FL RF connector
Amazon Echo Show 5 2nd Gen Smart Display Teardown
30 November 2021 20 min read
Tearing down an Amazon Echo Show 5, 2021 2nd generation smart speaker and display
Adding a Zigbee Smart Thermostatic radiator valve to Home Assistant
13 September 2021 6 min read
Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant.
Adding Gas Meter Energy logging to Home Assistant
03 September 2021 3 min read
Adding new MQTT sensors to Home Assistant to log Gas meter usage data
Shelly EM Power Logging with Home Assistant
26 August 2021 11 min read
Adding Shelly EM power monitoring in the loft with Home Assistant
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32
20 August 2021 9 min read
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module
Sonoff POW R2 Smart Switch power consumption mod
15 August 2021 6 min read
Modifying a Sonoff POWR2 Smart Switch with energy monitoring to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage
OBS Microscope Wi-Fi Remote Control
03 August 2021 7 min read
Creating a wireless remote control to switch between video capture scenes in OBS Studio to select between our Microscope and other cameras or desktop capture using a Wi-Fi Remote Control
Home Data Logger Zigbee Sensor Upgrades
15 May 2021 6 min read
We have added several new Zigbee sensors to our smart home system which runs Home Assistant and the sensors talk to the home Linux server using Zigbee2mqtt