Smart Home projects and automations
15 January 2023 11 min read 1,553 views
Using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning & Netatmo to measure the air quality in your home or office.
27 December 2022 13 min read 1,309 views
After lots of small changes to our usage, device upgrades and replacing some old household appliances, our energy usage is around 45% lower
28 November 2022 9 min read 3,862 views
Taking a look inside the latest Amazon Echo Dot 5 smart home speaker and Amazon Alexa device, now with a new larger speaker and temperature sensor
30 October 2022 7 min read 2,140 views
Using an ESP32 WiFi module to create a ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Solar PV Inverter to log data with Home Assistant
22 September 2022 4 min read 1,765 views
Connecting our Nest Thermostat 3rd Gen to Home Assistant via 1-wire and an Arduino Uno to capture the 1-wire sensor data
28 August 2022 7 min read 4,004 views
We got the new eddi V2.1 from myenergi with built-in WiFi and ethernet to add to our home solar system and Home Assistant.
08 June 2022 9 min read 12,407 views
Making a remote display using an ESP32 eInk ePaper module to show data from our Home Assistant system
17 May 2022 26 min read 8,450 views
A new solar PV inverter installed with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging
13 March 2022 5 min read 3,069 views
Repairing a Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug which has a dead relay
18 February 2022 9 min read 9,178 views
This post details our journey with Home Assistant since we first tried the software in 2016 and various upgrades with our hardware sensors and software to automate some of our home.
30 November 2021 20 min read 9,193 views
Tearing down an Amazon Echo Show 5, 2021 2nd generation smart speaker and display
07 November 2021 7 min read 2,053 views
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
13 September 2021 6 min read 21,777 views
Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant.
03 September 2021 3 min read 14,884 views
Adding new MQTT sensors to Home Assistant to log Gas meter usage data
26 August 2021 12 min read 14,589 views
Adding Shelly EM power monitoring in the loft with Home Assistant
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Welcome to my blog, here you will find my projects and other things. I make websites and manufacturer and sell expansion boards for the Raspberry Pi range of computers.
You can see where I live on my local community website, Virtual Swanage.