Notepad++ show line numbers
It’s a little hidden imo, so future-me or for your service – the setting to show the line numbers.

After expermienting alot with my MQTT server it was pretty polluted with sustained messages and I wanted to get rid of them. The fastest way I got this reliably to work was by deleting the persistence file while the MQTT server was offline. You could delete all or specific topics with a script, too, but…
Precondition: Have your lokal MQTT broker and Node-RED installed and setup or access to a remote one. I recently added a http request node querying a weather API to Node-RED. After extracting, the current temperature is then published on the local MQTT and can be used by all devices connected to the broker.In this example…
I have a talent to forget to cover my car before a night with temperature below zero and the next morning I have to scratch away all the ice. As I really don’t like that I decided to build a warning mechanism for that. I already had a Node-RED flow querying the weather API to…
Yeah we all can loop, but can you any or all? Checking if condition matches for at least one element of an iterable (e.g. list, tuple, set) In Python you can write that nicer with the builtin method any(): But who doesn’t like a one-liner (that is understandable): Very similar is the case if you…
For a container class with a dictionary with config values (among other members) I wanted easy reading access as if it was a dict itself. For that you only have to implement the __getitem__ method. You can extend the provided dict functionality for your class if needed like the following: All but the update method…
Be it HomeAssistant, mosqitto, NodeRed – I use docker to run them on a Raspberry and thanks to Portainer I can manage them with a a nice WebUI. It has been some time I set it up and as needed it again and had forgotten some of it I decided to make a short todo…