homelab

Running my own infrastructure at home, for its own sake: hardware soldered by hand, devices freed from their manufacturer, and everything answering to a machine of mine.

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Dec 9, 2025
An air conditioner on my own network, and nobody else's
The boxes you can buy to control an air conditioner remotely route the command through the manufacturer's data centre. I soldered my own instead: an ESP8266, an infrared LED and a receiver, running Tasmota — and it ended up inside the machine it controls.
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homelab

An air conditioner on my own network, and nobody else's