James Nimmo

Author: James

  • Hyundai Ioniq 28kw Remote Monitoring with ESPHome and A Better Route Planner

    Developed a configuration to remotely monitor the Hyundai Ioniq 28kw using ESPHome on MeatPi’s WiCAN interface. This enables monitoring the car telemetry from A Better Route Planner (ABRP) or Home Assistant.

  • BTHome Monitor V2 out now

    BTHome Monitor V2 out now

    I’ve been working on some improvements to BTHome Monitor over the past week and am pleased to announce V2 is now available. This version adds: Widgets are limited to ~40-70 updates per day, so they may not be as fresh as the advertisements being processed in the background. Let me know what you think of…

  • iOS App: BTHome Monitor

    iOS App: BTHome Monitor

    I built an app! BTHome Monitor brings visibility of BTHome sensors to iOS, allowing you to troubleshoot custom sensors, or extend their range by proxying the sensor data via webhooks. BTHome is an open standard for broadcasting sensor data over Bluetooth LE; enabling monitoring of low energy devices. I built this project to solve the…

  • WebXplorer: Browser-Based Data Analysis Tool for DFIR

    WebXplorer: Browser-Based Data Analysis Tool for DFIR

    WebXplorer is a powerful browser-based data analysis tool for working with Digital Forensics & Incident Response data, such as CSV and JSON files. I built WebXplorer using Vue.js, AG Grid and papaparse.

  • Managing Shelly relay schedules remotely from Home Assistant

    Managing Shelly relay schedules remotely from Home Assistant

    When I was first getting started with Home Assistant in 2018 or so, part of my job was assisting with the facilities management. The building relied heavily on Siemens APOGEE controllers for HVAC control, which controlled VSD fans, relays and actuators for hot/cold water circuits. Coming from a SysAdmin background, I was surprised to learn…

  • Create a dev copy of your WordPress site with WordOps

    Create a dev copy of your WordPress site with WordOps

    WordOps is a popular framework to setup and manage WordPress infrastructure, forked from EasyEngine in 2018 when EasyEngine v4 changed their architecture to use Docker containers. This is a quick guide to setting up a development copy of your live WordPress site which can be useful if you’re working on a redesign or testing new…

  • Configuring Atlassian Cloud Single Sign On for ADFS 3.0

    Configuring Atlassian Cloud Single Sign On for ADFS 3.0

    Atlassian don’t officially support AD FS with Confluence Cloud – but it is working well now I’ve sorted out the issues I was having passing user’s email address through as the nameId claim. Hopefully these instructions can save you some trial and error. Enable SAML on Atlassian Cloud First off – enable SAML on your…

  • Aeotec Micro Smart Switch & Home Assistant

    Several weeks ago my long awaited Z-Wave module for the Pine64 arrived. I managed to get open-zwave  installed on Debian on the Pi, found it was on /dev/ttyS2, but this week ran into trouble setting up my first Z-Wave device, the Aeotec Micro Switch. Tailing the OZW_Log.txt I could see it get added to the…

  • Flight review: Air NZ Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City NZ269

    First up had to check we were on the right flight, SGN sounded suspiciously like Singapore, before I clicked – we’re going to Saigon. The plane: Boeing 767-300. Two seats on the sides, three across the middle. Interior looks 90s but all clean and tidy. The seat: About row 30, middle, isle. A colleague had…

  • Enhancing Qlik Sense tables with Emojis

    I’m a newcomer to Qlik, and am working on implementing Qlik Sense for a hospital. One area I was considering today was how to better communicate to users when there might be something wrong or they need to be aware of with the data they are looking at. Our data model has quality checks as…