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Chris Warwick
@chriswarwick.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Old-time tech-nerd (retired). Woke AF.

Into #Green Energy
#HomeAutomation
#HomeAssistant
NHS 💙
Non-violent Civil Resistance
Extinction Rebellion #XR

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Just received an email from Microsoft about a 20%+ increase in my M365 subscription. They are taking the piss. Since none of my (otherwise perfectly performant) hardware supports W11, I have already been experimenting with Linux and Proton Mail and this will obviously […]

[Original post on mas.to]
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Woohooo! 👍 💰 🤑 💲 😂
February 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I came across a good looking display panel/IHD mentioned on the Octopus Energy forums, details in a blog here: https://www.topbytes.net/projects/ihd
This uses a Nextion 2.8" display (https://nextion.tech/discovery-series-introduction/)
#homeassistant #OctopusEnergy
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@WiteWulf ...looks like I need to have a battery-replacement session!
#homeassistant
January 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@WiteWulf I use a card with the attached config: - I also have some yaml (somewhere!) that pulls off the lowest 5 in a list (let me know if you'd like me to try to find that...!)
January 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looks like I'm going to have to update some of my automations at some point....
Octopus are changing their Outgoing rate to a variable tariff.
#homeassistant #octopus #solarbattery #OctopusEnergy
December 23, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I love the Duck Player in the Duck Duck Go browser - a reminder of what the web could be (and used to be) before the corporate greed of the big ad providers went wild. Ad-free. Lovely.
Yeah, I know, content creators need to get paid. I use patreon and other monetary […]

[Original post on mas.to]
December 3, 2024 at 5:02 PM
@falken @revk Got this working quite easily - neat! #WLED #homeassistant
December 2, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Can anyone help, please, with some #homeassistant templating...? I'm trying to produce a table (using flex-table) of devices connected to my Fritz! router. I'm OK at Jinja, but this has got me foxed completely :-(
Connected devices are presented in the Fritz! […]

[Original post on mas.to]
November 6, 2024 at 11:22 AM