Author: malte
Smarter Swimming Pool 4: Liquid Chlorine Level
My pool requires a regular influx of liquid chlorine that is stored in a large drum next to the automated chlorinator. Every couple of weeks I have to replenish that drum, otherwise the chlorine concentration in the pool water gets too low, and algae starts growing resulting in green-ish pool water. Needless to say, this…
Smarter Swimming Pool 3: Water Level
Water disappears from an outdoor swimming pool over time – naturally through evaporation or through a small leak in a pipe that is hard to detect. To some degree rain helps to balance the pool water level, but sometimes you will have to top up manually. If your pool is constructed like mine, then if…
Smarter Swimming Pool 2: Water Temperature
Since my pool is purely heated by the sun, I thought knowing the current water temperature might help in choosing the right outfit – boardshorts or wetsuit – or choose to better stay out of the pool altogether.
Smarter Swimming Pool 1: Pool Pump
When I bought my house I also inherited a nice outdoor swimming pool. Little did I know about pool maintenance back then and so during the first couple of months everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Anyway, I am now in a position to go beyond the static pool maintenance and am smartening…
Electricity consumption and production
When I got my solar system, it came with a little box, Envoy-S, that communicates with the micro-inverters on the roof, aggregates the data and sends it together with the electricity consumption data into the cloud.
Preamble
After exploring the field of home automation solutions for a while, and after a brief detour with OpenHAB, in mid-2016 I finally settled on Home Assistant as my central home automation hub and haven’t regretted my decision since.
