Adding a Zigbee Smart Thermostatic radiator valve to Home Assistant
Controlling our loft radiator with a Zigbee controlled thermostatic radiator valve and Home Assistant
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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,...
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Tearing down an Amazon Echo Show 5, 2021 2nd generation smart speaker and display
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Modifying a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to add an external antenna with a U.FL RF connector
View ArticleHome 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.
View ArticleFailed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug with energy monitoring relay...
Repairing a Failed TP-Link Kasa Smart KP115 WiFi Plug which has a dead relay
View ArticleSolar Panel Supplier OBills Scammed me out of ?640
I fell for an online scam from a fake online store for solar panels and lost a lot of money
View ArticleYaesu FP-1030A Power Supply Repair
Fault finding and repairing a Ham Radio Yaesu FP-1030A Power Supply which had a hidden manufacturing defect on the PCB
View ArticleSolar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging
A new solar PV inverter installled with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging
View ArticleHome Assistant remote ESP32 ePaper Display
Making a remote display using an ESP32 eInk ePaper module to show data from our Home Assistant system
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