Some on their smart home journey, may have arrived at the time where they want to manage high loads remotely, such as a geyser. Typically, at least in South Africa, geysers come standard with a 3kW element which uses 13 amps. However in my own home, the geyser for the main bedroom was equipped with a 4kW element, which…

Node-RED A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. Overview I am planning on writing a series of different posts on using Node-RED and so this is the first post of the series. It will have a small twist, in that I will be setting it up using docker-compose with a Let’s Encrypt certificate using Traefik for the…

VRRP The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a computer networking protocol that provides for automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol (IP) routers to participating hosts. This increases the availability and reliability of routing paths via automatic default gateway selections on an IP subnetwork…