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Frigate + Tapo, “wrong user/pass”

  • Post date 2026-03-02
  • Categories Random
I found a great deal on a pair of Tapo C246D cameras recently and couldn't resist picking them up. They are these dual-lens HybridCams that combine a wide-angle view with a motorized telephoto lens in one unit. Getting them integrated into Frigate turned out to be a fun little project, mostly because of some specific authentication quirks and how [...]

Automated Immich Photo Frame on Nest Hub

  • Post date 2026-02-11
  • Categories Random
Since migrating from Google Photos to Immich, I’ve been steadily reclaiming the features I actually used. One of the most glaring omissions was the ability to use my Google Nest Hub as a dynamic photo frame. I wanted a hands-off pipeline: I add a photo to a specific Display album, and it appears on my Hub automatically. No manual casting, no login [...]

Graph Nordpool prices in Home Assistant

  • Post date 2025-07-07
  • Categories Random
I came across this bloggpost by Lars Wilderäng that among all the affiliate links (the UPS was nice tho) had a graph of energy price from Nordpool in Home Assistant. He even had the implementation details just to copy and paste. But I was a bit confounded, it looked a bit too complicated, so I made a slimmer version. The version on Lars blog used a [...]

Vindriktning online

  • Post date 2023-09-21
  • Categories Experiments
Quite a while ago I bought an IKEA Vindriktning air quality thingie on sale with the intention to connect it to my Home Assistant setup. It’s a quite simple affair, there is a RS232 TX pin on the Vindriktning board that spews out values, so just connect a ESP32 to that and push the values to MQTT. There's quite a lot of guides online that are [...]

Kobo Weather

  • Post date 2022-02-26
  • Categories Projects
A couple of years ago I saw that a store sold Kobo eInk readers relativly cheap and a quick google showed that it was possible to root them and do what you wanted, so I bought one, and rooted it. Unfortunately there were no ready made scripts or programs to display weather information on the screen so I made my own. The first version At this time I [...]