Home Assistant: An Advanced GoodWe Inverter and Battery Dashboard
A complete build of a GoodWe hybrid inverter and battery dashboard in Home Assistant: every template sensor, every panel, the automations the data makes...
IT Requirements for Medical and Allied Health Practices in Australia
A medical practice holds the most sensitive data a small business can hold, and the law treats it that way. The small-business exemption in...
Storm Season IT Checklist for Queensland Businesses
Storm season on the Gold Coast runs from October to April. Somewhere in that window the power will drop mid-afternoon, come back twice, and...
Windows 10 Is Out of Support: Upgrade, Replace or Pay
Windows 10 stopped getting security updates in October 2025. The paid extension that kept business machines patched for a year runs out on 13...
Wi-Fi That Reaches the Whole Building: Mesh, Access Points, and Why the Provider’s Router Falls Short
The router your internet provider posted out was built to a price and put where the NBN cable came in, which is usually a...
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule for a Small Business: What to Keep, Where, and Why Microsoft 365 Is Not a Backup
Ask a business owner whether they have backups and most say yes. Ask where the backup is and the answer is usually “the cloud”,...
NBN Connection Types in Australia: What You Have, How to Fix It, and How to Get Off Copper
Seven different technologies deliver the NBN to Australian homes and businesses, and they fail in different ways. The fix for a dropout on FTTN...
Home Assistant and Claude Code: Setup, Usage and Control From Your Phone
Home Assistant runs the house. Claude Code runs in a terminal and can read files, run commands and talk to other services over MCP....
Monitoring Your Solar and Battery in Home Assistant (GoodWe and Others)
The manufacturer’s app shows you today’s generation and the battery percentage. Home Assistant shows you the lot, keeps the history on your own hardware,...