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We wondered about the unusually high energy consumption in my parents house. To identify the devices responsible for this, some Tasmota controlled smart power plugs were integrated to provide information about the energy consumption in a dashboard of the existing Home Assistant installation. [Read More]

While switching from openHAB to Home Assistant, I had to migrate a custom binding to read some data from a heater. Using the Home Assistant RESTful integration allowed including this thing using pure configuration and made the migration easy - without an integration being available and without custom implementation. [Read More]

On my serverless journey, I had a closer look at the technologies around. Since I have been implementing applications with Spring, it was natural to try Spring Cloud Function. Let's have a closer look at how a serverless function running as Azure Function can be implemented with Spring. [Read More]

Stripe uses webhooks to notify about events like successfully finished payments. While integrating Stripe for the first time, I asked myself how such webhooks can be tested properly without relying on Stripe during automated test execution. In this blog post you will learn how it works. [Read More]

Azure Functions support several runtime environments including the Java Virtual Machine, which allows us to implement functions in programming languages like Java and Kotlin. Let's have a look at how a simple Azure Function can be implemented with Java. [Read More]