A dead-cloud burglar alarm brought back to life, nineteen smart devices freed from their apps, a 12.6 kWp solar array read live, and an old tablet reborn as a wall panel — all orchestrated locally on a single Pi, with nothing phoning home.
The manufacturer's cloud died years ago and took the alarm's alerts with it. We reverse-engineered its local radio protocol and gave it a new brain — phone alerts, voice control and a full sensory intruder response. Read & try it →
One Pi, dual-homed across two networks, running everything: Tuya, a reverse-engineered Bluetooth bulb mesh, Nanoleaf, Ring, a live Victron solar array and Google voice. Read & try it →
A 2014 tablet in a printed clamshell, running a six-tab dashboard that never scrolls: solar at five-second resolution, alarm, doorbells, lights, and a tile that knows whether its own charger is keeping up. With an exploded 3D model of the mount. Read & try it →
Where it goes next — switchable dashboards, an LCARS bridge console, presence & geofencing, solar-aware automation and an instant-disarm fob. The ambitious wishlist. Explore →
Every integration talks to the device on the LAN. Dead vendor clouds don't matter, and nothing depends on a subscription staying alive.
The alarm panel, remotes and sensors are untouched. Old kit — an alarm hub, a 2014 tablet — gets a second life instead of landfill.
Config is versioned to a private repo and every risky change is backed up first; secrets stay on the Pi. If it breaks, it comes back.
The same Raspberry Pi 4 — booting from a USB SSD — also carries a crypto paper-trading experiment and a solar grid-control flow, all comfortably under a 0.2 load.