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Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (14) Unifying the Workspace, Connecting HomeAssistant, Networks, Vehicles, and LoRa to Antigravity (agy)

By | June 26, 2026

In a modern developer’s smart home, the workspace extends far beyond local source code. It spans the physical environment (climate, blinds, air quality), network routing infrastructure (routers, switches, APs), smart appliances (refrigerators, HVAC, printers, smart kitchen devices), personal vehicles, self-hosted web analytics, and off-grid radio meshes. By linking these domains together and exposing them to… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (14) Unifying the Workspace,… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (12): Off-Grid Smart Home Control, Bridging Meshtastic (LoRa) and Home Assistant Assist

By | June 23, 2026

Imagine controlling your entire smart home—closing blinds, turning off lights, checking room temperatures, or arming security systems—from miles away, without cellular coverage, internet access, or grid dependencies. By combining Meshtastic (an open-source, decentralized LoRa mesh network) with Home Assistant (the ultimate local home automation hub), you can build a secure, long-range, off-grid control link that… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (12): Off-Grid Smart Home… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (11): Brother & IPP: Smart Printer Integration

By | June 22, 2026

Goal: Connect your smart laser printer (Brother MFC-L2710DW) via IPP and SNMP to track diagnostic stats (toner levels, drum life, fuser health, page counters). Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for terminal users, these CLI scripts act as… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (11): Brother & IPP:… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (8): Netatmo Ecosystem: Weather Stations & Smart Cameras

By | June 19, 2026

Goal: Monitor multi-property environmental metrics (CO2, humidity, noise, rain/wind gauges) and integrate Smart Indoor/Outdoor cameras (with face/person recognition and floodlights) under a unified developer API. Why CLI Scripts? (Agentic AI Observability) Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (8): Netatmo Ecosystem: Weather… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (6): Weight & Health Tracking via Withings Smart Scale Integration

By | June 17, 2026

Goal: Sync health parameters like body weight, goals, and battery metrics from Withings Smart Body Analyzer scale using OAuth2 authentication. Why CLI Scripts? (Agentic AI Observability) Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for terminal users, these CLI scripts… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (6): Weight & Health… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (3): EdgeMAX Infrastructure Status Monitoring via UISP Cloud API

By | June 15, 2026

Goal: Leverage the UISP API from your EdgeMAX controller to monitor hardware health (CPU load, RAM usage, System Temperatures, and System Uptime) for routers and switches. Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for terminal users, these CLI scripts… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (3): EdgeMAX Infrastructure Status… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (2): Interfacing with the UniFi Site Manager Cloud API

By | June 11, 2026

Goal: Query Ubiquiti’s cloud portal (unifi.ui.com) using custom API keys to track remote WAN status and local IP addresses of UniFi Express (UX) gateways. Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for terminal users, these CLI scripts act as… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (2): Interfacing with the… »

Determine the size of all the tables in a Oracle database schema

By | February 19, 2026

Finding the size of tables in Oracle can be a bit more nuanced than in other databases because Oracle manages space through segments. To get an accurate picture, you generally want to look at the USER_SEGMENTS view (for your own schema) or DBA_SEGMENTS (if you have administrative privileges and want to see someone else’s schema).… Read More: Determine the size of all the tables in a Oracle… »

Starship with bash: customize the status command line with a workday hour counter

By | October 16, 2025

I am a big fan of of Starship Cross-Shell prompt see https://starship.rs/ You can add to the command line very fancy information besides the default stuff that is also extremely useful. You can add a workday hour counter to your Starship prompt by creating a small script and then telling Starship to display its output… Read More: Starship with bash: customize the status command line with a… »

Summer days philosophy : The “paper straw” metric, mega yachts and the “green bulshit” .

By | June 29, 2025

What a wonderful thing, to relax, sit by the sea, with a gin tonic in your hand. What can spoil that moment? Obviously, because I am always picky and obsessive to find flaws in everything, I found it. The f.king paper straw that dissolved half way my gin tonic. Annoyed by it I looked up… Read More: Summer days philosophy : The “paper straw” metric, mega yachts… »