How to integrate unsupported Tuya devices on Home Assistant

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. – Grace Hopper Maintaining the right temperature for my swimming pool is crucial for enjoying a good swim. Instead of frequently checking a thermometer or relying on a mobile app, I wanted to get real-time temperature updates remotely. Here’s how I achieved this using an affordable BLE...

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates Understand the problem Processes are secondary, doesn’t matter if it is Agile, Kanban or Waterfall: you just need to have an exact understanding of the problem to be solved and plan/organize your work around that. And, of course, be able to adapt. Changes will occur...

The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it. ― Linus About 9 years ago I wrote a post explaining how to turn your wi-fi router in a NAS and Media Server with OpenWRT (pt-BR) and it’s was a huge success. By far is my most viewed post until now. In the post I warned about the risks of...

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ― Rich Kulawiec TL;DR Always use the Time class and correctly stores the time zone information. Time Based on floating-point second intervals from unix epoch (1970-01-01); Has date and time attributes (year, month, day, hour, min, sec, subsec); Natively works in either UTC...

To understand recursion, you must understand recursion. ― Author Unknown TL;DR Recursion is a tricky programming technique. It could be very useful or very harmful, depending of its use. The default Ruby VM (MRI) has a heap size limit to handle recursions. This may cause the catastrophic error SystemStackError for big recursion calls. There are...