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  • Flashing Tasmota on a Sonoff Dual R3 & Integrating With Home Assistant

    baldacchino_adminAugust 20, 2021

    ESP32Home AssistantMQTTSonoff
    Dualr3ESP32homeassistantMQTTSonoff

    PLC based appliance modules have been something of a staple in my house over the last 10 years and at recent count, I had 72 X10 appliance modules. The challenges with X10 are pretty widely known but with the advances in X10, most of these challenges around reliability can be pretty easily solved. Adding in JV Engineering’s excellent XTB-IIR which… read more

  • TLS 1.3 – Faster, Safer and Just Awesome

    baldacchino_adminAugust 13, 2021

    PresentationTLS
    AzureMicrosoftPoodleRFCSecuritySlothSSLTLSTLS 1.3

    Recently I thought it was time to get back to basics, time to get in to the detail and I gave an internal session at Microsoft on (TLS) Transport Layer Security 1.3 and why its such step change for TLS. I am sure you are probably aware TLS is an encryption protocol that protects Internet communications. It is the successor… read more

  • A Journey in to MQTT With Roller Shutters, Mosquitto, HomeAssistant & Low Powered Micro-Controllers

    baldacchino_adminAugust 4, 2021

    AlexaazureHa BridgeHomeVision ProMosquittoMQTTPLC
    ArduinoDockerMicrcontrollerMosquittoMQTTplcRelaysRoller Shutters

    Its been a journey over the last 10 years in driving heat out of the top story of my house. From double glazing, heavy drapes and window film, keeping temperatures cool and the house dark in summer has been a challenge for our north facing windows (the master bedroom). Near 6 months ago I decided I would install external roller… read more

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