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Saving power on the home network Photo
Saving power on the home network
As part of our ongoing quest to reduce our energy usage and carbon footprint, we have installed a compressive home energy logging system which uses various sensors to monitor our energy consumption, generation and environment data, which are collated in Home Assistant and also on our home logger

Adding a Zigbee Smart Thermostatic radiator valve to Home Assistant Photo
Adding a Zigbee Smart Thermostatic radiator valve to Home Assistant
Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant.

Adding Gas Meter Energy logging to Home Assistant Photo
Adding Gas Meter Energy logging to Home Assistant
Adding new MQTT sensors to Home Assistant to log Gas meter usage data

Shelly EM Power Logging with Home Assistant Photo
Shelly EM Power Logging with Home Assistant
Adding Shelly EM power monitoring in the loft with Home Assistant

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32 Photo
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module

Washing Machine notifications via Home Assistant and Sonos Smart Speakers Photo
Washing Machine notifications via Home Assistant and Sonos Smart Speakers
Audio notifications for when the washing machine needs to be emptied via Home Assistant and Sonos speakers

Sonoff POW R2 Smart Switch power consumption mod Photo
Sonoff POW R2 Smart Switch power consumption mod
Modifying a Sonoff POWR2 Smart Switch with energy monitoring to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage

OBS Microscope Wi-Fi Remote Control Photo
OBS Microscope Wi-Fi Remote Control
Creating a wireless remote control to switch between video capture scenes in OBS Studio to select between our Microscope and other cameras or desktop capture using a Wi-Fi Remote Control

Home Data Logger Zigbee Sensor Upgrades Photo
Home Data Logger Zigbee Sensor Upgrades
We have added several new Zigbee sensors to our smart home system which runs Home Assistant and the sensors talk to the home Linux server using Zigbee2mqtt

Scam emails from a "certified photographer" Photo
Scam emails from a "certified photographer"
Yet more scammers using emails claiming to be from a certified photographer who says your website has copyrighted images hosted

Apple iPad Air 2 vs Android Nexus tablet teardowns Photo
Apple iPad Air 2 vs Android Nexus tablet teardowns
Teardown time with some old tablets that no longer work or charge, some Apple iPad Air 2 and Android Nexus tablets

Workshop ESD Anti-Static upgrades Photo
Workshop ESD Anti-Static upgrades
Trying to avoid zapping electronics by adding new ESD Anti-Static matting on the bench and floor in our workshop.

Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera on the Microscope Photo
Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera on the Microscope
Adding a live video feed to our Brunel BMSZ trinocular stereomicroscope using a Raspberry Pi High-Quality Camera module and USB interface

ESP8266 Wifi RGB LED Controller Photo
ESP8266 Wifi RGB LED Controller
Adding RGB to all the things in the loft workshop using an ESP8266 Wifi module to make a custom RGB LED Controller

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X PC build in Fractal Design Meshify S2 case Photo
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X PC build in Fractal Design Meshify S2 case
PC built time for the loft workshop with a new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X PC build in Fractal Design Meshify S2 case

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