Let’s say we have a power meter like the one that sense makes. Let’s also say that the API for this power meter is a little underwhelming. In this hypothetical situation, we can fetch the current home power usage so we could certainly wire up an observable stream to this API and (assuming we’re using…
Yearly Archives: 2019
Home Automation Dashboard
Hardware I recently put together this Home Automation Dashboard. The screen was pulled from an old laptop and the computer is an older SFF PC running linux. The application is a relatively simple Angular application that streams most of the data from a Home Assistant websocket. The PC sits in a box in the wall…
More LED Furniture
I built two pieces of furniture recently. AV Table First is a new AV cabinet for my home theater. First, I selected several species of wood and cut them down to the same size. Next came the puzzle of laying out the pieces. The ends of the slab were cut off at 45° to make…