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Brett Adams @ba.au · 21/09/2026

Over the weekend I setup Tesla's Charge On Solar function between my Model 3 and Powerwall 3, *without* using the Tesla app. It took 4 different asymmetrical keys and significant trial and error, but now I know how.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 03/06/2026

I corrupted my @home-assistant.io Matter server by pulling the power on my HA Green a few times, but Claude Code found a backup from a week ago and then merged the device database from a few hours ago into it so without having a recent backup, I am fully back up and running with all nodes!

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 03/06/2026

If domain names were a... length competition, it's not longest wins. ba.au

ba.au

The domain of Brett Adams from Australia

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 06/08/2025

I love my MacBook Air. I hate MacOS.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 11/05/2025

I don't "Google" questions anymore, I just ask the Gemini app (Pro 2.5). Specifically things that you would find in documentation or Stack Overflow, I get long winded answers but it has been reliably answering my questions with accurate nuance.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 02/05/2025

I'll be speaking at #splunkconf25 in Boston later this year, and not just once, but *three* times! Get MORE data in. (PLA1078) You wouldn't Splunk a car? (PLA1080) Everything you didn't know about Metrics (DEV1136)

Mic check, 1, 2 - I'm speaking at .conf24 September 8 - 11 Boston, MA

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 01/05/2025

When I started my small business I was quickly freaked out by international tax and pivoted from Stripe to a merchant of record. Yet so many of the services I use, which are MUCH bigger, don't charge me appropriate sales tax at all. Like @cloudflare.social, @theverge.com, @nuxt.com, and @zed.dev

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 28/04/2025

I've voted for the same political party my whole life, and this week in the Australian Federal election I will be voting the other way.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 22/03/2025

I wish there was a product like @github.com CoPilot Workspace, but had much higher limits and just raise the PR when it was done. I dont care if it ran when there is spare inference and took much longer to complete, I just need a monkey to do monkey work.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 12/03/2025

This was long overdue. Now I just need to update bre77.au to point to my Blusky.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 23/02/2025

Had a phantom Automatic Emergency Braking event in my Tesla Model 3 today. That's where the vehicle automatically applies full brakes until you come to a complete stop. Would have been a minor discomfort if it wasn't for my wife holding a tray of 4 coffees, which went all over her and the seats.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 22/02/2025

@zed.dev AI Edit prediction turns out to be a really good spell check when I'm writing markdown. Probably not the most efficient use of an LLM, but it works!

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Teslemetry @teslemetry.com · 22/02/2025

Its a brand new day here at Teslemetry, and we have just rebranded. Say hello to our new word mark and revised brand mark. teslemetry.com/blog/brand

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Brand New Day

Teslemetry has rebranded and now has a new word mark, brand mark, and color!

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 14/02/2025

As a solo developer, I feel attacked by @atlassian.bsky.social marketing. Invite my team? Unleash the power of teamwork? I'm all alone here Atlassian!

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 13/02/2025

When I figured out how to generate typescript from protobuf protocols using ts-proto, my development experience went through the roof. No more cross referencing multiple files just to create a valid message. Made me realise I hadn't been generating pyi files for my Python implementation either.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 12/02/2025

If you have had trouble setting up the Tesla Fleet integration in @home-assistant.io, I have good news: FleetKey.cc is working again!

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Teslemetry @teslemetry.com · 31/01/2025

The @home-assistant.io Tesla Fleet integration's built in application credential was removed in 2025.1, and has now has been disabled by Tesla. alerts.home-assistant.io/alerts/tesla...

alerts.home-assistant.io

Tesla Fleet built-in credential is being disabled | Home Assistant Alerts

Alerts for breaking integrations of Home Assistant.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 24/01/2025

It's annoying when you accomplish something incredibly technical that only a few hundred people in the world would even care about. I have successfully implemented the Tesla Command Protocol in TypeScript for NodeJS. I will be using it for the @teslemetry.com API soon.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 17/01/2025

I did a thing! Well to be fair my wife did most of the work.

A father, his 2 year old son, and his 1 day old son.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 15/01/2025

The way the #HomeAssistant Tesla Fleet integration works was great before, but now it's a complete mess. It has occured to me that it could be much simpler if it supported the Machine to Machine based authentication... If only I didnt have a dozen other things on my backlog.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 11/01/2025

Chatting with @joostlek.bsky.social last night led me to commiting 1592 new lines to the Teslemetry Stream library. GitHub CoPilot has become such a critical part of my workflow now, and makes these incredibly repetitive tasks bearable. I'm actually looking forward to getting an agentic AI.

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Teslemetry @teslemetry.com · 10/01/2025

Teslemetry's API v2 has just gone live, built with @fastify.dev. Being able to validate input and self document are extremely valuable features for my users, and the modular (plugin) design is perfect for my future growth. api.teslemetry.com/docs/ Blog post coming soon.

api.teslemetry.com

Scalar API Reference

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 08/01/2025

And just like that, Tesla has moved the goal posts and now requires each domain to have its own certificate registered with a CA from a list they don't provide. Let's Encrypt didn't appear to make the cut, and a CloudFlare wildcard certificate isn't enough either. Support ticket raised.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 05/01/2025

Tesla Fleet in #HomeAssistant 2025.1 requires users to register their own developer application, which requires hosting a public key on a unique domain. To make this easier I have created fleetkey.cc with @cloudflare.social Pages, Workers, and KV. It lets anyone host their pubkey for free.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 31/12/2024

I just copy pasted a documentation page into @github.com CoPilot with Claude 3.5, and it wrote all the @fastify.dev / OpenAPI schema for me. The time I save using CoPilot far exceeds its cost many times over.

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Teslemetry @teslemetry.com · 31/12/2024

Teslemetry is 1 year old today. A reflection on the year, and on 640 million API requests served. teslemetry.com/blog/2024-wr...

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Teslemetry Wrapped 2024

Celebrating our first birthday with a look back at 2024

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 27/12/2024

I had trouble sleeping last night because I was redesigning my API server with @fastify.dev in my head.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 27/12/2024

Got my @home-assistant.io Voice Preview Edition today, so had a play around to see what it can do with @teslemetry.com youtube.com/shorts/KTmBt...

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Home Assistant Voice PE with Teslemetry

YouTube video by Brett Adams

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 25/12/2024

I got myself a @steamdeck.com for Christmas, and I absolutely love it.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 01/12/2024

After 157 hours, I have finished @factorio.com Space Age. factorio.com/galaxy/Quant...

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s7orm - Galaxy Of Fame | Factorio

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 28/11/2024

Google and the EU bullying Apple into adopting RCS means I can now message a friend in the US without it costing me 50c per message. We truly live in the future.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 19/11/2024

I managed to snag myself the limited edition 1TB White @steamdeck.com today within a minute of sale starting in Australia. Super excited to get my hands on it.

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Brett Adams @ba.au · 15/11/2024

I've done a lot of work contributing to #homeassistant, but clearly some of my work is more impactful than others. Splunk: 56 users Teslemetry Custom: 99 users Teslemetry: 198 users Advantage Air: 357 users Aussie Broadband: 587 users Tessie: 861 users Tesla Fleet: 2,259 users

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