Sharing enlightening moments of home automation
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.
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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 up the whole thing. This post is the first one in a short series describing various small improvements I have made – starting with making the pool pump a bit smarter.
Continue reading “Smarter Swimming Pool 1: Pool Pump”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.
Continue reading “Electricity consumption and production”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.
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