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Wireless home automation with EnOcean

A year ago I installed a wireless switch in the kitchen to switch on the kitchen spots. I chose the Easyclick system by PEHA [http://peha.de] which works without batteries and it performs very well. This Easyclick system uses the EnOcean [http://www.enocean.com]energy harvesting wireless technology.

Green phones in the house

[https://vleeuwen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Siemens-N300A.jpg]A long time ago I did a post about the new home phone setup [https://vleeuwen.net/2009/09/home-phone-by-asterisk]. Since that time I really liked the combination of Asterisk with the Siemens Gigaset VOIP handset. Now that I’ve moved

Server upgrade

[https://vleeuwen.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/intel-dq67ep.jpg]This week I decided it was time to upgrade my home server. The main reasons, lack of 64-bit support and virtualization technology (VT-x) in my existing setup [https://vleeuwen.net/2009/10/a-green-home-server]. The performance gain was also a nice side

A green home server

This website was served by an old timer PC running on an Intel N440BX Server Board codename Nightshade. Despite being a rock solid system, it housed a dual Intel Pentium III 600Mhz processor configuration which did not meet today’s performance demands and energy consumption. So I decided to build