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  • How to duty cycle HVAC zones with Home Assistant

    Here is a handy script that can help with automating your zone duty cycle, for this you will need to set up a slider card, and have your zone controller working in home assistant. You can find the 4 zone controller here or the 8 zoner here.

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    Located at Beenleigh, 4207 we can design, prototype 3d anything you need!

  • SongWalk and the Lost Art of Sharing Music

    There was a time when finding music felt personal. You heard a song on late-night radio and waited with your finger over the record button. You carried around cassettes with handwritten labels, CD wallets full of scratched burns, and a Discman that skipped the second you walked too fast. Then came MP3 folders, Napster searches,…

  • The Perils of Solar Battery Rebates and Why Homeowners Feel Like They’re Being Taken for a Ride

    Australians love a rebate. On paper, it sounds simple: the government offers a generous discount, households get cheaper batteries, and everyone wins. In reality, rebates can create a pricing fog that makes it much harder for ordinary people to tell what something should actually cost. That is exactly why so many homeowners come away from…

  • SongWalk – Local Hosted Music Sharing Made Easy

    SongWalk – Local Hosted Music Sharing Made Easy

    SongWalk is a retro-inspired music dropbox for friends, collaborators, and families who need to share libraries without the noise of mainstream cloud storage. The new SongWalk brand keeps the same battle-tested songshare backend but wraps it in a polished AV-style skin, a fresh logo, and a single-cross-platform quick-share script that covers both local Python and Docker deployments. Why SongWalk?…

  • EasyEDA Pro test points and PCBA BOM exports: the unintuitive checkbox that finally fixed it

    If you are sending a board off for assembly and your manufacturer keeps asking why your test points are in the BOM, here is the fix that finally worked for me in EasyEDA Pro. I had a set of test points that were just bare PCB pads. No fitted part. No metal loop. Nothing to…

  • Lightweight Monitoring Endpoints for WordPress

    The Goal When monitoring a WordPress site, the endpoint should answer one simple question: It should not load the full WordPress application unless you deliberately want an application-level health check. That matters because many common WordPress URLs trigger PHP, database access, plugin loading, cron hooks, and background jobs. For a busy site, that turns a…

  • ESP32 Flashing Cheat Sheet

    Practical commands for flashing and recovering ESP32 boards in this repo on Windows. Tool Check On this machine, ESPHome is available via python -m esphome and esptool via python -m esptool. Checked locally on 2026-03-21: ESPHome 2025.12.2, esptool 5.1.0. Find The COM Port List serial ports: More detail from Windows: Quick before/after method: Repo Commands Validate config only: First USB flash: Flash zone firmware over…

  • Register your interest in our esp home v3 in wall smart zone controller.

    [Update!] the zone controller can now be pre ordered! 4 zone wall controller. A direct swap for these wall controllers, allows you to control zones from Home Assistant. I’m hoping to have these in the next few weeks (still need to design a face plate) Simply: Update! Front face competed! Feel free to leave your…

  • How to Adjust the Centre Lever Friction on a 1999 Sea-Doo Speedster Twin Throttle Control

    If you’re rebuilding or reassembling the twin throttle and shifter control on a 1999 Sea-Doo Speedster, one thing that can be confusing is the friction adjustment for the centre lever. When I was putting mine back together, I could clearly see how one side’s throttle lever friction was adjusted, but the centre lever friction adjustment…