picotherm: Controlling an OpenTherm Boiler with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Introduction In our old flat, we had control over our heating from our phones: I’d reverse engineered the RF control protocol used by our Salus thermostat. I never got round to blogging about that, but the code is available here. Now we’ve moved, we wanted the same control. The new boiler is a “Baxi 600”Continue reading “picotherm: Controlling an OpenTherm Boiler with a Raspberry Pi Pico”

Writing A Speaker Horn Music Visualiser

As soon as I decided to add the 5×5 Blinkenlights matrix to the horn, it obviously needed to be turned into a music visualiser. Googling for “mopidy audio visualizer” found this post, where someone did exactly that. But it wasn’t on a Pi, ran some other software, didn’t talk to a 5×5 matrix, and –Continue reading “Writing A Speaker Horn Music Visualiser”