Amazon Echo Pop Smart Speaker teardown
New teardown and looking inside the latest Amazon Echo Pop smart home speaker and Amazon Alexa smart home device
Air Quality in Your Home: Measuring using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning and Netatmo
Using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning & Netatmo to measure the air quality in your home or office.
Energy Savings and Solar PV Upgrade, Six Months of Data
After lots of small changes to our usage, device upgrades and replacing some old household appliances, our energy usage is around 45% lower
Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker Teardown
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
ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter
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
Nest Thermostat to Home Assistant via 1-Wire, Arduino and MQTT
Connecting our Nest Thermostat 3rd Gen to Home Assistant via 1-wire and an Arduino Uno to capture the 1-wire sensor data
myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi
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.
Home Assistant remote ESP32 ePaper Display
Making a remote display using an ESP32 eInk ePaper module to show data from our Home Assistant system
Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging
A new solar PV inverter installed with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging
Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug with energy monitoring relay replacement
Repairing a Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug which has a dead relay
Home Assistant Setup in 2022
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.
Amazon Echo Show 5 2nd Gen Smart Display Teardown
Tearing down an Amazon Echo Show 5, 2021 2nd generation smart speaker and display
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
Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant.
Adding Gas Meter Energy logging to Home Assistant
Adding new MQTT sensors to Home Assistant to log Gas meter usage data
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