A while back we upgraded our TV to a Philips OLED Ambilight model similar to the Philips Ambilight 55OLED759. The difference going from LED to OLED was impressive but there is a software feature that soon became rather annoying in that the TV would from time to time prompt you to let it refresh itself to improve the life of the OLED display.

The WLED project is something I have been meaning to use for a while but never got around to experimenting with until recently when I purchased some WS2812B Fairy Lights to decorate our living room with. The setup was easier than expected and the capabilities of this platform far exceeded my expectations.

I recently upgraded to a new PC which has multiple drives that I wanted to encrypt and decrypt these automatically on boot.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the need to intercept traffic from an Android when things were a lot less secure and you could just use a tool such as Charles Proxy as a proxy between your device.

I’ve been running an ESP32 NodeMCU in the bedroom for motion, temperature, and humidity for a while and have wanted to extend it’s functionality by adding light sensing too, in order to improve the motion light control to trigger when the lux is a certain level vs the current functional, but limited mode based on the position of the sun.