Couch guardian

Couch guardian

Sign in Subscribe

Macos and automatic launch of Music app

So, you have your beloved headphones and every time you connect them, for some reason this little Music app on Macos starts playing your local playlist while you are about to hop on a zoom call. Quite annoying. Apparently you can't disable Music app. There are no settings to remove

Passive Income in NL - Meesman

I'll start with an obvious - passive income is for lazy couch guardians who really don't get bothered by market fluctuations too much and prefer steady pace of actions to support their investments. When I moved to The Netherlands, it was quite a hype as a topic, so I jumped

Moving to a cloud based MQTT service

I'm using home assistant for several years and it happens that I have multiple places I am running home assistant in. Each of them has different hardware and type of installation due to historic reasons but one thing in common is that they all have some degree of MQTT instance

Roborock & home assistant

I'm using Roborock for quite some time now, however, recently I faced some challenges with it - the map for the robot vacuum was not loading in home assistant and it turned out to be not loading even in Xiaomi app. After some digging I found the solutions thanks to

Couch guardian is live!

Couch guardian is live!

This is Couch guardian, a brand new site by alex that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published! I'll keep some notes going