novovictus

Engineering notes and project artifacts focused on telemetry, hardware behavior, protocol analysis, and practical systems research.

WTG: Windows Telemetry for GPUs

A public research utility for observing GPU telemetry behavior on Windows, with emphasis on the gap between device-level NVML readings and Windows/WDDM reporting surfaces under compute load.

RustNVMLGPU telemetryWindows
Reported Bug

WTG HA Redline

A Home Assistant dashboard/example layer for WTG MQTT telemetry. WTG remains the driver-reported source of truth; Redline turns those raw values into arcade-style dashboard examples such as IDLE, LOAD, MAX, LIMIT, and SUS.

Home AssistantMQTTdashboard examplesGPU telemetry

BLE Propane Monitor for Home Assistant

A no-nonsense ESPHome reference implementation for reading compatible BLE propane tank monitor advertisements with an ESP32 and exposing normalized level, sensor state, and RSSI entities in Home Assistant.

BLEESPHomeHome Assistantprotocol analysis

Home Assistant Shop Ventilation Controller

A Home Assistant field-cycle automation for nighttime shop heat extraction, using bay-door state, AC/heat state, outdoor temperature, outdoor humidity, floor temperature, and a damper/fan to reduce hot mornings while preserving daytime AC operation and passive equalization behavior.

Home Assistantheat extractionshop automationthermal mass

Power Monitoring and Automation

Instrumentation and automation research around shore power, electrical state, and environment-aware control loops. The goal is practical monitoring that can feed reliable automation without unnecessary platform complexity.

power monitoringautomationHome Assistantedge systems

Distributed Home Automation Systems

Concept work exploring multi-node Home Assistant deployments, coordination patterns, management surfaces, and system-level observability across local automation environments.

Home Assistantorchestrationcontrol planeobservability

UniSystem Chronicles

Restoration chronicle and technical notes for a Nintendo VS. UniSystem conversion in an original orange Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet, including cabinet provenance, board inventory, PPU/ROM relationships, repair logs, and photo evidence.

Nintendo VS. UniSystemarcade restorationhardware notespreservation

Side Quests

Smaller engineering projects, field fixes, and practical infrastructure builds that warrant documentation but do not need dedicated repositories. These are one-off artifacts, bench notes, hardware hardening passes, and edge-system experiments where the useful output is the observed behavior, measured result, or build pattern rather than a maintained codebase.

The intent is to keep the small wins visible without inflating them into full projects: enough context to make the work repeatable, enough measurement to make the result useful, and enough restraint to leave each artifact in its proper weight class.

field engineeringhardware notesEPROMHome AssistantProxmoxTailscaleedge systems

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