Welcome to AndyWhittaker.com
Little bits and pieces I've done over the years
Introduction
New website for 2026, based on Grav CMS. Grav is a flat file Content Management System which results in a fast web browsing experience.
Many years ago I spent a lot of time creating my Andy Whittaker website because I believe in sharing what I know and discovered. I am a big fan of open-source software, especially github and even publish some of my own stuff too.
Recently, I have also been interested in looking after our planet by focusing my thoughts on renewables and reducing the amount of energy I use. I have built my own house that is fully insulated (cavity filled with 100mm Celotex Foam – Cavity closed with 4kW of solar PV (12 x BENQ PM096B00 330 Panels), ~2200W of Solar Hot Water when it's very sunny (Valliant) and (currently) ~23kWh of battery storage with 2 x LUX LXP5000ACS inverters connected in parallel to 8 x PylonTech US3000 batteries. I'm planning to write a few articles in the coming months to share what I've done. I will probably author a few YouTube videos while I'm at it.
I have a full-fibre 900Mb connection to my home provided by Zen Internet, been my choice of ISP for at least 25 years.
My home lab setup consists of a Proxmox server hosting a few internal docker containers and LXCs (Ubuntu Server, pihole, OpenClaw, NGNIX, Home Assistant, Frigate) and a TrueNAS server for my backups and some other apps (Immich, Gitea, Plex, TailsScale, CloudFlared)
Recent Articles
Disassembling a Bosch ME7.55 with IDA Pro
18 May 2022
Disassembling a Bosch ME7.1 ECU with IDA Pro I did these tutorials many years ago, October 2007 to be exact. Here I will teach you how to disassemble a Bosch ME7.5.5 ECU using IDA Pro. When you are pr...
ECUFix The Checksum Fixer
27 Mar 2022
ECUFix is now at version 6.4.1.1 Updated 27th March 2022
General If you wanted to modify your Bosch Motronic M3.8/M5x/ME7.1/7.5 but couldn't get the checksums fixed or, more importantly, needed to p...
FreeScan
08 Aug 1999
For your information, changes were last made on: 11th February 2018
To help me with the Lotus Esprit protocol, I spent some 10 minutes with a Vetronix Tech1 scanner connected to my Lotus Esprit at th...