PokyPow - Child Lock

A demo how the PokyPow child lock will work for you PC

Home Assistant Community in Cologne

The Home Assistant Community Day in Cologne was awesome. We’re doing it again next year!

Home Assistant Meetups Around the World

Home Assistant Community Day is happening on the 24.05.2025. Join my local meetup in Cologne!

How to mount the LTT 40 oz / 1.2 Liter Water Bottle on a Bike

Finding a bottle cage for the LTT 40 oz bottle was a quest. Here is my model.

Migrate Zigbee Dongle with Zigbee2MQTT

I got a Zigbee Dongle with Ethernet, and here is my surprisingly effortless migration experience.

Server & NAS Cases for those who need HDDs

A list of popular NAS and Server cases with pictures and some specifications for your next NAS or Server build.

Hackaday Europe 2025

My Hackaday Europe 2025 Experience

PokyPow Documentation is Live

While waiting for parts I worked on the PokyPow documentation and implement flashing via the browser. An overview of the tech I used.

Python Environment Management for Everyone - The Easy Way

Short and easy way how to handle multiple Python projects with multiple Python versions to save you from version hell.

How to use PiKVM with an MSI Z690-A Board

How to fix PiKVM weird output issue with the MSI Z690-A Board.

UEFI Settings are strange - Always on USB for the MSI MAG B550M MORTAR WIFI

Enabling USB Always on for MSI Motherboard and some PokyPow Updates

How to Remove the Login Password in Windows 11, Power On with Home Assistant and keep your Steam Games up to Date

How to make your PC more like a console: Remove the Windows Password prompt. Automatically update your favorite games. Start your PC with Home Assistant and the PokyPow. Plus a small PokyPow Demo with my Setup.

Home Assistant

Happy Holidays - Favorite Smart Home Gadget

My favorite smart home gadget is a robot vacuum and mop! My personal PokyPow use case. I am working on a cat litter box scale to automatically vacuum the area around the cat litter box. And: Happy holidays!

Home Assistant

Smart Doorbell for Cats with Home Assitant

Create a Smart Doorbell with a pressure mat and the Aqara

PokyPow

PokyPow Updates and Tasmota

We need more subscribers, Tasmota might come, new hardware revision coming soon.

PokyPow

The PokyPow Prelaunch Page is live!

Prelaunch Page is Live! Next Milestone: 200 Subscribers at Crowd Supply!

Home Assistant

An Emergency Stop Button with ZigBee and Home Assistant

How to build a very simple ZigBee Emergency Stop Button for Home Assistant

PokyPow

pc-switch renamed to PokyPow and other small updates

Hey nerds 👋 🚨The PokyPow prelaunch page is live! Sign up there for stock updates at Crowdsupply. I am working with Crowdsupply on a couple of things, including the campaign's landing page. I hope I can make it public soon. Send them some prototypes and they took very nice

Home Lab and Hardware

Replacing disks in BTRFS

Yak shaving continues. Replacing my SSDs in a BTRFS Raid.

Missed Comments - Mailcow with Ghost

Hey folks 👋 just a quick technical update. I configured this Ghost blog to use my own Mailcow instance. But there was a misconfiguration on the Ghost side of things and therefore I missed a few comments. I found that those emails were rejected from rspamd in the Mailcow interface. Still

Linux

My first disk failure with BTRFS

Disk failure, BTRFS raid full, borked PiKVM. Everything you need on a Sunday!

Docker

Migrating my VPS

Just some small notes how I migrated my services from my Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 VPS with Docker

Linux

View your Docker Container Logs with Netdata

How to configure Docker to check container logs in Netdata with journald

Linux

Automatic Server Updates - unattendedUpgrades with email notifications

A guide on how to setup unattendedUpgrades on Ubuntu 24.04