Writing

09/2026iseo-argo-ble: reverse engineering my front door lockDecompiling an Android app to get a smart lock off the cloud, then getting the result into Home Assistant core.09/2026ha-rbac: giving everyone in the house their own Home AssistantA hotel let every room control every other room over Home Assistant. That's the moment I decided it needed real roles.09/2026Replacing Grott: a Growatt integration that works completely offlineGrott has no license, needs Docker, and talks to Home Assistant over MQTT. Its offline mode doesn't even work offline. Here's what I built instead.09/2026Why this blog existsAn intro, an admission about AI, and an experiment to see if I can finally keep up with a blog.