Motorcycles & Photography

Met Mercedes Me L charge tarief (en Porsche Charging services) voordelig op reis naar Zuid-Frankrijk

Na ons avontuur op vakantie in Oostenrijk, waarvan we achteraf een veel te hoge afrekening voor het laden van onze EV mochten betalen, pakten we het deze keer beter aan. Nu sowieso...

A Home Assistant integration for 3rd gen Zero Motorcycles using exposed Starcom API

Long story short I was working on a Luminus Home Assistant integration to get my electricity bills in the system when I realised I never botherd implementing one for the starcom API...

Help! Ik betaalde veel te veel aan elektriciteit op reis naar Oostenrijk (doorheen Duitsland)

Hou je vast, ben zelf ook achterover gevallen van de totale prijs. Maar eerst de afstanden en verbruik edm om toch ietwat in perspectief te kunnen plaatsen. We reden ~ 1.200 km...

Met de elektrische auto op reis naar Oostenrijk is anno 2023 blijkbaar een makkie, hoe en waar laden en andere tips

We kennen onze EQV ondertussen al 2 jaar en 70.000 km dus we weten al wel hoe ver we op 1 lading kunnen rijden en waar we in België (desnoods) kunnen bijladen....

How SOLAR makes all the difference RIDING ELECTRIC (cars)

I think I should start using chat GPT or other generative AI to create blog titles, it’ll likely do better than me. But that’s not what this article is about. I’ve made...

Running Kotlin Applications on a headless Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems

Kotlin is way more than just an Android programming language. And to show you I’ll explain how you can run Kotlin Applications on a headless Raspberry Pi. Preparing a Raspberry Pi I...

This is what my Energica electric motorcycle consumes in electricity every month for my ~50 km commute (=200 km a week)

Since I’ve added my Energica to my home assistant setup at home I got great insight in some of the numbers. One of them is the amount of energy that goes into...

HOME ASSISTANT and automation with AQARA WXKG11LM wireless buttons or IKEA TRADFRI switches & SONOFF Zigbee USB dongle

These Aqara wifi buttons can be found for around 10 EUR each on amazon from time to time. Ikea TRADFRI switches are even cheaper and also supported as long as you don’t...

Updating MEROSS garage door opener to work locally only skipping cloud using my own HOME ASSISTANT MQTT broker

So after failing to use a simple Shelly 1 (v3) for my garage door automation I finally opted for a Meross smart device that is designed to do just that. At 30...

HEADLESS SETUP on my ENERGICA SS9 Electric Motorcycle to push OBDII data to HOME ASSISTANT

One of the things I still had to fix on my Home Assistant setup monitoring my Energica electric motorcycle was to replace that Android phone with some headless device that could remain...