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Home assistant!

I’ve been experimenting with homeassistant – to link up various IoT devices.. ikea, tp-link, philips, sonoff

I finally got around to adding a usb zigbee dongle (CC2531) with mqtt2zigbee and added a temp-hum sensor fairly easily. Next steps: moving hass to an ssd for safety and slowly removing philips and idea hubs!

fix for Boxster hood elastic

I finally found the right torx tool (right angle thing I normally open hard disks with!)

Open hood about 70cm, undo velcro straps, Loosen the screw:

Which releases the elastic

and outside its very easy to sew on a replacement a similar length. Clip back over screw and tighten! Hood now closes without catching on the sides! Previous fix only lasted 6 months (staple elastic over old one – as seen on youtube)

 

Air filter swap time

before and after air filter

After one year – Boxster’s intake noise has become boomy again – which I think is a sign of a dirty filter. So I did a quick swap. Of course quick isn’t really fast – half-open top, unclip hood, bungee it all back, remove speaker, remove soft cover, undo torx30 bolts (memo to self: find short torx30 first!).  remove metal cover, remove air box cover, unscrew filter, swap plastic holder, push back in, reverse everything else.

Horse looks on as I access the engine bay

Nvidia driver issue

Well my desktop finally sucumbed to the nvidia driver issue where the driver seems installed but not working. I turned to a couple of blogs people made and followed the driver unininstaller way with DDU, which deleted all traces of nvidia drivers, clicked on the fresh install from the nvidia installer and its back to normal at last!