Projects


Sep. 2, 2022

Smart Meter (Steiermark - Graz)

Intro

During this years summer vacation I invested some time into reading out energy consumption from my electric smart meter (Sagemcom T210-D-r) and the heat smart meter (Kamstrup Multical 403).

I assume that this might be of interest for other people which

  • do get their electicity from Energie Steiermark and do have a Sagemcom T210-D-r smart meter installed
  • do have a central heat supply from Energie Steiermark and do have a Kamstrup Multical 403 smart meter installed

Hardware Setup

I am reading both smart meters via a Raspberry Pi device using the interfaces as described on the github repo .

Jan. 8, 2022

Macbook Air (M1 - 2020)

Hardware

  • Macbook Air M1 (2020)
    • 8GB RAM
    • 256GB SSD
    • 8-core CPU, 7-core GPU
  • WL-UG69PD2 USB-C Dual 4K Docking Station with Power Delivery (link )
  • 2 Dell U2717D (link )
  • Logitech MX Key and MX Anywhere 3
  • Canon TS8250
  • Epson DS-730N

Dual display on Macbook Air

I was aware of the fact that Apple officially not support dual external display on this M1 SoC. But with 12/2021 DisplayLink officially announced a DisplayLink driver for macOS .

Jan. 2, 2022

ESP8266 Garage door control

Hardware

The main components used are:

ESP8266 Firmware

The according source code can be found in my gitlab project .

Sep. 28, 2020

UniFi Home Network

In 2020 I decided to switch for the core network backbone of my home to switch to Unifi .

Hardware

  • USG-3P
  • US-16-150W
  • 2x UAP-AC-Pro
  • UAP-AC-LR

USG Dnsmasq (DHCP and DNS)

USG is actually running EdgeRouter OS. See Documentation for how to use cli commands together with the unifi controller.

mca-ctrl -t dump-cfg > config.gateway.json

Main reason for switching to configuration on file basis was that I wanted to use UGS as DHCP and DNS service provider for my network. Therefore I am using dnsmasq and UGS and configure hostnames and fixed IP addresses via config.gateway.json.