Peter's Blog

Statistics May 2025

Sun 01 June 2025

#	Category
2	Books finished
17	Bottles of wine opened
33	Episodes watched
26	Movies watched
2	MTB rides (63 km)
1	Concerts visited

By peter, Category: statistics

#	Category
4	Books finished
9	Bottles of wine opened
26	Episodes watched
34	Movies watched
1 (24 km)	MTB rides

This year I did a lot of things that some way or the other are considered normal to people, or useless to others. What is useless is registering how often one does such things, and I made it a hobby to make those useless statistics. While I do this on a monthly basis, I think it's best to have a yearly overview as well.

Episodes watched

This year I watched a whopping 637 episodes of 65 different series (as opposed to the 461 episodes for 56 different series last year). Somehow I found the time to binge a lot. One …

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics December 2023

Mon 01 January 2024

#	Category
3	Books finished
21	Bottles of wine opened
74	Episodes watched
33	Movies watched
1	New food tried

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics November 2023

Fri 01 December 2023

#	Category
8	Bottles of wine opened
74	Episodes watched
31	Movies watched

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics October 2023

Wed 01 November 2023

#	Category
7	Bottles of wine opened
30	Episodes watched
35	Movies watched
2 (100 km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics September 2023

Sun 01 October 2023

#	Category
8	Bottles of wine opened
42	Episodes watched
19 (9 new)	Movies watched
4 (142 km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics August 2023

Fri 01 September 2023

#	Category
3	Books finished
11	Bottles of wine opened
29	Episodes watched
32 (22 new)	Movies watched
2 (64 km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics July 2023

Tue 01 August 2023

#	Category
2	Books finished
11	Bottles of wine opened
53	Episodes watched
30 (22 new)	Movies watched
3 (112 km)	MTB rides
2	Festival day

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics June 2023

Sat 01 July 2023

#	Category
2	Books finished
17	Bottles of wine opened
54	Episodes watched
19 (4 new)	Movies watched
3 (180 km)	MTB rides
3	Festival Day

By peter, Category: statistics

Using timers in my setup

Thu 08 June 2023

In my previous article I explained how I've created atomic automations. This helps me getting things tidy and my automations working and manageable. Up till now, if I wanted to keep lights on for a certain amount of time after motion detected, I used the following construction:

"Motion On":

- trigger:
    - motion detected
- action:
    - event: motion_on

"Porch Light On":

- trigger:
    - event: motion_on
    - event: welcome_home_lights
- action:
    - switch light on

The 'welcome_home_lights' event is not used in this example, but shows how other events could turn lights on as well.

"Motion Off":

- trigger:
    - motion cleared for X minutes
- action:
    - event: motion_off

"Porch Light …

By peter, Category: homeautomation

Simplifying Automations

Mon 05 June 2023

Since a couple of months I'm using Home Assistant. I've been using a VeraEdge home controller for years, to control my zwave devices, but the last year or two the support for that device was failing (especially the cloud storage for security cam images was buggy, to say the least): since they started promoting Ezlo I knew why, and I decided not to go that way.

Luckily for me, Home Assistant integrates perfectly with VeraEdge (and doesn't with Ezlo, yet?) so that was a win-win. In the meantime I've expanded my collection with several ZigBee devices.

After creating several automations …

By peter, Category: homeautomation

Statistics May 2023

Thu 01 June 2023

#	Category
1	Books finished
8	Bottles of wine opened
66	Episodes watched
34 (19 new)	Movies watched
5 (202 km)	MTB rides
1	Concerts visited

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics April 2023

Mon 01 May 2023

#	Category
1	Books finished
8	Bottles of wine opened
24	Episodes watched
36 (24 new)	Movies watched
3 (103 km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics March 2023

Sat 01 April 2023

#	Category
14	Bottles of wine opened
58	Episodes watched
29 (12 new)	Movies watched
2 (56 km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics February 2023

Wed 01 March 2023

#	Category
2	Books finished
8	Bottles of wine opened
77	Episodes watched
29 (14 new)	Movies watched

By peter, Category: statistics

Statistics January 2023

Wed 01 February 2023

#	Category
3	Books finished
11	Bottles of wine opened
56	Episodes watched
30 (13 new)	Movies watched
1 (30km)	MTB rides

By peter, Category: statistics

Year 2022 statistics

Mon 02 January 2023

This year I did a lot of things that some way or the other are considered normal to people, or useless to others. What is useless is registering how often one does such things, and I made it a hobby to make those useless statistics. While I do this on a monthly basis, I think it's best to have a yearly overview as well.

Category	#
Books finished	26 of different books: SciFi, technical, other
Bottles of wine opened	137 - this might seem a lot, however this is 2.5 bottles on average each week, and only in the weekend
Episodes …