Ten Days with RS-232 - Making My Offline LG TV a Little Smarter
After ten days of experimenting with RS-232 control on my offline LG CX, it didn’t replace infrared or HDMI-CEC–but it found a surprisingly useful place in my smart home.
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I Am Number 6
After days of troubleshooting cables, DB9 pinouts, TX/RX wiring, a MAX3232, LG service menus, and even my own debugging code, I finally got Home Assistant talking to my offline LG CX over RS-232–and became Number 6.
I Want to Be Number 6
My attempt to become the sixth active installation of Home Assistant’s new LG TV via Serial integration turned into an adventure involving ESPHome, a MAX3232, service menus, DB9 pinouts, a multimeter, and an LG CX that stubbornly refuses to talk back.
Making My Hugo Blog Friendlier to LLMs with llms.txt
How I added llms.txt and Markdown versions of every post to my Hugo blog, with everything generated automatically as part of the normal build process.