Motorcycles & Photography

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...

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...

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...

Een nieuwe batterij voor m’n Macbook Pro Retina model late 2013

Nog nooit had ik zoveel geld uitgegeven aan een laptop. De vorige was een Macbook Pro 13″ model van 2009 met redelijke specs zoals 8GB geheugen en achteraf voorzien van een 500...

Lipo powered Raspberry Pi

I needed a completely wireless Raspberry Pi so I looked into some battery power options. Whatever power supply I would use it should end in a micro usb connector. I first stripped...

raspberry pi apt-get illegal instruction

After an apt-get dist-upgrade attempt all apt-get calls on a raspberry pi with official raspbian distro returned an unhealthy illegal instruction response. A quick look at my /etc/apt/sources.list showed that I specified a non...

how to start nitro car engine

This is for everyone struggling to get his (first) nitro engine started. Although it’s mostly about car engines this technique can be applied to other nitro powered models also. For airplanes a...