Hi there! I’m Matt Colyer, a enterpreuner and technical product leader based in Redwood City, CA.

Reverse Engineering the Anova Precision Oven

I recently got an Anova Precision Oven, which I love. But what would make it even better is if I could control it from Home Assistant. Let’s dive in! While ...

Why is Tesla FSD afraid of the dark?

I’ve been lucky enough to have access to the FSD beta for a number of months. At first everything worked great but eventually I noticed that I was no longer ...

Getting an MJPEG stream from ADT CCTV cameras

It turns out that the previous owner of our house had several ADT NV214A video encoders installed to digitize the CCTV system. At first, I thought they’d end...

SmarterMeter v0.4.0 Released

This is a pretty major update as two significant things have changed relating to SmarterMeter. First Google PowerMeter no longer exists, therefore SmarterMet...

SmarterMeter and Google PowerMeter Part Ways

Earlier this year at Google IO, Google announced that Google PowerMeter would be retired but they didn’t give many specifics. They’ve now followed up with de...

SmarterMeter v0.3.3 Released

This is just a small update with two important bugfixes. The first bug prevented data from being sent to Google PowerMeter correctly and the second prevent e...