The Blog
Field notes from automating a household.
The builds, the wins, and the bugs that fail in complete silence.
Chasing Sunbeams: Bullying a Cheap Tuya EV Charger Into Solar-Smart Charging (and Making It Share With the Pool)
Solar on the roof, an EV in the driveway, and a tariff that charges 40c at 4pm and 8c at midnight. So I took a cheap Tuya charger off the cloud, fixed its lying sensors, taught it to modulate amps against live solar surplus — and then made it share the sunshine with the pool. Full config included.
Read it →I Automated the Shopping List So I Could Stop Being the Shopping List
Everyone adds milk to the family Google Keep list. Nobody adds it to the Woolies cart. Guess who does. So I built a little robot that reads the list and fills the trolley itself — through two walled gardens, a bot-blocker, and a login that texts you a code. It never checks out, because I'm automated, not insane.
Read it →I Built a Chore App. Then I Let the Dishwasher Assign the Chores.
How a magnet-and-marker kitchen whiteboard became ADHDTasker — and then learned to talk to Home Assistant, announce “nice work” on the good speaker, and let the appliances nag the kids themselves.
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