Category: Home Automation
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.
