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How to automate releases in Gitlab using Standard Version and NPM

Daniel MasonFebruary 12, 2019March 5, 2023

This post shows how to set up automated, tagged, semantically-versioned releases, changelog generation, and CI testing using a Gitlab pipeline, Standard Version and Conventional Commits.

Arduino & Micro Controllers

How to create an Eclipse/Sloeber IDE project template

Daniel MasonJanuary 31, 2019June 5, 2020

by Daniel Mason01779

Setting up Eclipse projects for tasks such as unit testing and hardware debugging is very time consuming due to the fact there are a million

Reviews

Home Automation IOT Best RF 433MHz Hardware Review

Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019June 27, 2023

by Daniel Mason01943

RF devices such as motion sensors or door sensors are much cheaper than their Wifi equivalent. This post combines a few reviews I have posted

Arduino & Micro Controllers

Sloeber Arduino IDE ESP8266 SPI.h No such file or directory Error Fix

Daniel MasonJanuary 19, 2019November 9, 2020

by Daniel Mason02948

How to fix an annoying build error for ESP8266 builds.

Hardware Home Assistant Integrations Smart Home

How to calibrate Home Assistant Sensors

Daniel MasonJanuary 10, 2019March 5, 2023

by Daniel Mason02649

To calibrate my temperature and humidity sensors, I placed them inside a glass jar and calibrated each one to match their collective average value.

CI/CD

Script to run custom Powershell commands on file changes

Daniel MasonDecember 16, 2018December 13, 2020

by Daniel Mason01384

In writing Home Assistant components, I found it useful to restart a lightweight Home Assistant server on file changes to the Python component under development.

Python

Implementing a simple Expiring Dictionary in Python

Daniel MasonOctober 21, 2018May 30, 2020

by Daniel Mason02209

Here is a Python class that implements an expiring dictionary. This is a straight-forward algorithm for deduplication of messages.

Firmwares

Automating ESP8266 Firmware Deployments

Daniel MasonSeptember 28, 2018November 10, 2020

by Daniel Mason02276

Not too long ago I wrote about ESPHomeYAML -- a YAML based firmware generator for microcontrollers. What if I told you that you can use

Home Assistant Integrations

Home Automation: Priority Locks

Daniel MasonAugust 25, 2018November 9, 2020

by Daniel Mason02103

As a home automation set up grows in size and complexity, there are certain issues that manifest themselves. The problem of lighting has been discussed

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Design Thinking: How to critically assess a solution in relation to the problem

Daniel MasonAugust 13, 2018December 13, 2020

by Daniel Mason0833

There exists a problem. We need a specific geometric shape to fulfill a given set of requirements. Let's apply some design thinking principles to find

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How to automate releases in Gitlab using Standard Version and NPM

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Sloeber Arduino IDE ESP8266 SPI.h No such file or directory Error Fix

How to calibrate Home Assistant Sensors

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Implementing a simple Expiring Dictionary in Python

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