home-automation
If you use Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, you can use the following script to configure the motor limits for your Zemismart Zigbee blinds. alias: Update Zemismart ZM25 Blind Motor Limit fields: entity_id: required: true description: Entity ID of your cover entity example: cover.blinds selector: entity: filter: domain: cover
home-assistant
I bought a Zigbee motor for some blinds in our living room. I got it on AliExpress. Blind motors can be really expensive from New Zealand suppliers. I got a quote from one supplier for $350 per motor, but you can find motors on AliExpress for less than $100. The
web-design
I wrote a blog post about painting my fence. This got me thinking a lot about colors and how I use them as a web developer. Color Matching Paint With GIMPPlease note: This post is a stream-of-conciousness journal entry that describes all of the mistakes I made while trying to
painting
Please note: This post is a stream-of-conciousness journal entry that describes all of the mistakes I made while trying to color match paint. This is not a how-to guide from an expert. We're renting an old house that needs a lot of maintenance. The landlords are very easy-going
3D Printing
My wife is a counselor who does "play therapy" at a primary school. She has a sand tray and some toys that kids can play with during their sessions. Sometimes she asks me to 3D print things for the kids to play with. For example, I printed this
lora
I bought this awesome device that sends me notifications whenever we get a new letter or package in our mailbox. I bought it from the creator's online store: MailBox Guard Wireless IR SensorPricelessToolkitPricelessToolkit The design is also open source and available on GitHub: GitHub - PricelessToolkit/MailBoxGuard: Lora
blog
I haven't been able to write any blog posts since I got an M2 MacBook. I was using an old version of Hugo and got it running in a Docker container, but the Docker container only ran on my old Intel Mac. It was too painful to update
web-design
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post about creating a favicon.ico file for your website or blog. Things have changed a bit since I wrote that blog post in May 2010. I've been updating the CSS for my blog recently, and I