Motorcycles & Photography

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...

home assistant dashboard showing Energica data pushed over MQTT

How I’m pushing data from my Energica electric motorcycle to my Home Assistant installation

First a quick disclaimer, I’m literally writing this 3 days after the installation of my Home Assistant setup so I have little experience with that. Therefor many of the configuration details could...

Regenhuif voor Lovens Explorer bakfiets in gebruik genomen, en we gebruiken die niet eens in de regen

Misschien moet ik deze rubriek toch maar anders noemen zodat ik ook nog altijd over fietsen kan schrijven hier. Ik heb net een update gedeeld op m’n YouTube kanaal van de regenhuif...

Did my Energica battery degrade in 2 years and 25.000 km and if so by how much?

When I bought the bike new in may 2021 it had a usable capacity of 17.400 Wh when charged in ideal conditions. That is a full balanced charge with a battery temperature...

Status aandrijf accu Mercedes EQV na eerste 50.000 km en anderhalf jaar

Ik ben zelf heel benieuwd of er meetbare degradatie is van de accu en dus het bereik wat je kunt verwachten bij een volle lading naargelang de accu op leeftijd komt. Ik...

So this is the new blog, some features added while writing this

As I explained in this post on my previous blog I canceled my wordpress.com subscription and instead imported everything in this wordpress install I have on my paid hosting services. You might...