Tasmotizer: Try to Flash a WiFi LED Light with a Custom FirmwareMy IOT enabled home grows sensor by sensor. In one of the last articles, I explained which new devices I want to integrate: Power switches…2d ago2d ago
Tasmotizer: How to Flash a Sonoff S26R2 Power Switch with Custom Firmwaren your smart home, controlling and access sensors and devices is an essential capability. From a functional viewpoint, smart power switches…Feb 13Feb 13
Home Assistant: Overview about Smart Light and Smart Power ProtocolsIt started with a ESP8266 board and DHT11 temperature sensor to store data in a timeseries DB. And it evolved to a Home Assistant based…Feb 3Feb 3
Home Assistant and ESP Home: How to use MQTT Integration for Dynamic Device ConfigurationAn MQTT message broker is the standard way to transfer information between different IOT devices. Home Assistant has a powerful MQTT…Jan 23Jan 23
IOT: Dynamic Deep Sleep Configuration for ESP8266 and ESP32 BoardsEspecially when running your ESP boards on battery, conserving energy is an important aspect. ESPHome controlled boards can be configured…Jan 13Jan 13
Home Assistant: How to Fix API Disconnection and False Positive Sensor Readings with ESP8266 BoardsWhen using Home Assistant to integrate with ESPHome managed devices, connection timeouts can occur. Normally this means that the device…Jan 2Jan 2
InfluxDB: Optimize your Data with Data Retention Policies and Continuous QueriesInfluxDB is a time series database that you will find in the context of IOT projects. What makes these databases time-based is the simple…Dec 23, 2024Dec 23, 2024
Universal Personal Assistant with LLMsLarge Language Models are a unique emergent technology of 2024. Its fascinating capabilities to produce coherent text influences many areas…Dec 12, 2024Dec 12, 2024
LLM Evaluation: Which LLM to use for developing a personal assistant?In my blog series, I covered several aspects of LLMs: Understanding their evolution, investigating libraries, researching, and trying how…Dec 2, 2024Dec 2, 2024
Fine-Tuning LLMs: Comparison of Collab, Kaggle and 6 other PlatformsFine-Tuning and evaluating LLMs require significant hardware resources, mostly GPUs. Building an on-premise machine learning computer is…Nov 21, 2024Nov 21, 2024
