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The bathroom fan debacle
I completed this project a while back and had the images saved up for a blog post – somehow almost a year has gone by since then in a blink of an eye. But anyway, enjoy this delayed update about the...
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Firewall rules for HomeKit with HomeAssistant
I’ve recently been playing with the popular open source home automation software Home Assistant. One of the nice features of this platform is that it can export most of the devices it manages as...
View ArticleWellington Home Automation Hackers
I’m slowly setting up more and more Internet-of-Things stuff in my house and because of my interest in this space I’ve started a Wellington Home Automation Hackers meetup that will meet monthly! If...
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The Heating Project
Having gone through three Wellington winters in our home, Lisa and I really didn’t want to make it a fourth this year. Whilst our property is fortunate enough to get a lot of sun during the day, it...
View ArticleIntroduction to Xiaomi Zigbee IoT/Smart Home devices
I’ve recently been experimenting with Xiaomi Zigbee IoT/Smart Home devices. These devices are super affordable (approx $20-55NZD) and make it very easy and affordable to upgrade a home with useful...
View ArticleScaling backend infrastructure to handle millions of phones (Mobile Refresh...
I recently had the pleasure to speak at the 2018 Mobile Refresh conference held here in Wellington and did a talk introducing how we run some parts of the Sailthru Mobile platform, along with...
View ArticleEmail to Toyota NZ re CarPlay
A few months back I had an email exchange with Toyota, uploading here for prosperity so I can look back a few years later and see how it all plays out. hi Toyota, This message is intended for Neeraj...
View ArticleAutomatically restarting GNU/Linux hosts upon hung storage
We recently experienced a weird and frustrating problem with storage reliability on our RabbitMQ cluster running on AWS c5-series EC2 instances with EBS storage and Ubuntu LTS 16.04. One of our...
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eBike life
Back in October 2018, I finally did something I’d been meaning to do for a while and got myself an ebike. Two main reasons for this decision – Firstly the public transport in Wellington is useless so...
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2020-2022 mega update
It seems somewhere along the way I’ve lost my passion/time for updating this blog. I personally blame getting the bike as now I have yet another exciting way to spend rather limited amounts of...
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