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bazcurtis

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Love to cycle, a proud geek. Working in the cyber security industry

I post about my #Solar installation and other projects like #HomeAssistant. More information on my website

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chetwisniewski, to infosec
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Idea: A new conference called "The Boring Security Conference". It covers topics and hands-on advice that are what actually keeps organizations secure. No zero-days, no APTs and no "if the criminal does these 39 things in precise order and you're not watching your owned" talks.

bazcurtis,
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@chetwisniewski We need to back to basics. What are the little things that admins can do with the limited time they have, which is short?

I worry many admins feel, I am never going to be on top of security, why bother. I would not want to be an admin any more.

I looked after 250 users with a decent it budget, but I still didn’t have a patching solution and relied on WSUS for Windows Updates.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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Started to play with Sections in Home Assistant and I love it. Thanks to @madelena and the team at @homeassistant for this release. Some examples. Please read the alt text. The MacBook Air version would still have room for a 4th column, but it seems I am limited to three. Hopefully that can change or I am wrong.

I believe this is just the start. I can't wait for the next released. I have always found dashboard very frustrating.

@homeassistant @homeassistant @homeassistant

I dragged the loft and bedroom temperature card to Lounge and Hallway section respectively.
My original Dashboard. Zoomed to 80% so you can get the idea. The office and gym columns were vertical stacks
This is my MacBook Air view.

bazcurtis, to random
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I have written up our heat pump planning permission journey here https://www.bazmac.me/blog/my-heat-pump-journey-with-octopus-energy-part-2-planning-permission

Installation date is the 22nd July.

@EarthOrgUK

bazcurtis, to random
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There is indeed a Savings Session tomorrow

bazcurtis, to Starfield
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I have a question. My wife and I are new to XBox and gaming. We have found some of the games too fast and too many buttons to remember. Do you think we could play Starfield?

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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For those who didn't follow my ZHA and SkyConnect issues earlier in the week. I have no written it all up here

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/fixed-issue-with-home-assistant-skyconnect

@homeassistant @smarthomejunkie
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bazcurtis, to solar
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I have posted my September solar stats

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/septembers-solar-import-and-export-numbers

bazcurtis, to random
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I used to use to add my Tweets to . Does anyone know how to do that with Mastodon?

bazcurtis, to random
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Here is my review of our first year with our solar and battery system.

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/our-first-year-with-solar-and-battery

bazcurtis, to random
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@cloudguy you have a bigger reach than me. Please spread the word. It is urgent, time is running out.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/bereavement-support-payment/

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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Like all good Home Assistant projects, one thing leads to another. I wanted to track my daily electricity costs. I sorted that pretty quickly.

This led to making a couple of cards with apexcharts-card.

The graph on the left will show the last 7 days of import cost, export profit and then the total cost. A minus will be a profit on the day. The graph goes back a week and won't be correct for another 4 days. Last two days are correct

The donut is the daily overview.

bazcurtis, to random
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I have posted our Solar Generation and Export numbers for February. I have added last year’s generations as a comparison.

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/february-solar-generation-and-export-numbers-2024

bazcurtis, to LEGO
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The is making great progress. I am done for the day now. I will save up the finish for next weekend. I think I will leave it with the seats on view.

Lego Concorde now with cockpit attached. Top view.
Lego Concorde now with cockpit attached. Cockpit close up.

bazcurtis, to random
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Lego Artemis Space Launch System bag 17 done.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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I have a Broadlink RM4 Pro and it has learnt all the commands. I can see them in the file. When I call the service it doesn't turn on the fan. There is no error when I call Remote: Send command. Any ideas on what I can check?

@homeassistant @homeassistant @homeassistantinpills @homeassistant

bazcurtis, (edited ) to random
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Some nice plunge pricing tomorrow morning.

10.30am to 4pm.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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Sad news, the Home Assistant Solcast Integration is dead. The developer has pulled it and deleted it from GitHub.

https://github.com/hacs/integration/issues/3745

On the plus side BJReplay has forked it and it can be found here. It is not in HACS yet.

https://github.com/BJReplay/ha-solcast-solar

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bazcurtis,
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@spitfire @homeassistant @homeassistant @homeassistantinpills @homeassistant I tend to agree. I am sure plenty of people would have commented to say they appreciate all the work and please keep it up. You never know is also happening in someones life and this might have been the final straw.

bazcurtis,
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@spitfire @homeassistant @homeassistant @homeassistantinpills @homeassistant I haven’t installed the fork yet. I may do it today. It is the automations and cards that are a pain. As ever it is quiet majority that get stuffed by this. If he was getting grief I can totally understand.

I know a few weeks back the Solcast API was down and yet their status page said it was ok. Users were asking for a fix that wasn’t his issue.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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Just swapped over my Solcast Integration from the old version that was removed to the one hosted here.

https://github.com/BJReplay/ha-solcast-solar?tab=readme-ov-file

It seems to have gone well. I had to rename a couple of sensors, most people won't have to do that and update my config.yaml fine as I had some calculations going in there.

#Solcast #HomeAssistant #SolcastIntegration

bazcurtis, to f1
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Finally a proper race.

#F1 #Formula1

bazcurtis, to random
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Lego Artemis Space Launch System bag 16 complete. A bit of a panic when I thought I was missing pieces. All good.

Bag 16 pieces.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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Recently I bought a Broadlink RM4 Pro to control my Hunter ceiling fan via Home Assistant. Here is how I set it up.

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/using-broadlink-rm4-pro-with-home-assistant

bazcurtis, to f1
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Rain in Canada for the Grand Prix. Fantastic.

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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The Sunsynk powerflow card is still my favourite Home Assistant card for my solar. I have updated my post about it.

https://www.bazmac.me/blog/sunsynk-power-flow-card-for-luxpowertek-inverter-update-3

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