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Charge Your EV with Solar Surplus: A Step-by-Step Introduction to evcc Setup
Discover how to set up and configure the powerful evcc software to intelligently control your EV charging, maximizing the use of your home's solar surplus energy. This guide walks you through the process, turning daily charging into a seamless, optimized experience. - · 12 min read < 100 views
Smart EV Charging: Automatic Home Charger Control with AI License Plate Recognition
Learn how to automate secure access to your EV charger using Home Assistant! This tutorial shows you how to automatically unlock and authorize charging only when your specific car is detected. Ditch the RFID cards and ensure only authorized vehicles can charge effortlessly. - · 8 min read 9258 views
ZigBee Temperature and Humidity Sensors: A Comparison
Smart homes increasingly use temperature and humidity sensors for automation, and I've installed over 10 throughout my house, including the garden, attic, fridge, and pool. ZigBee sensors are ideal for this due to their low power consumption and reliable communication, allowing them to operate on batteries for months or even years. - · 8 min read 21064 views
Going Green: SolarEdge & Home Assistant
The third part of my Our Own Electricity series describes how I integrated our photovoltaic system into Home Assistant. - · 8 min read 347 views
Going Green: Our Own Electricity
Part 2 of my "Our Own Electricity" series gives an insight into our electricity production and consumption. After I explained our setup I will share details on the installation costs, our break even calculation. - · 8 min read 420 views
Going Green: Installing a Solar System
Discover how we cut our electricity bills and achieved energy independence by installing a 9.45kW solar system with battery storage. Learn about our motivation, technical setup, and real-world journey to producing your own clean electricity. - · 8 min read 11094 views
Green grass with Home Assistant
Automate your lawn sprinklers for effortless, intelligent watering using Home Assistant. This guide details how to connect your system to create smart schedules based on weather and soil conditions. Get a healthier, greener lawn while optimizing water usage. - · 9 min read 30109 views
Water tank monitoring with ESPHome
Watering our lawn and plants around the house wasn't one of my favourite things to do. This had to be done better - fully automatically and without intervention. - · 9 min read 37585 views
Arlo Cameras in Home Assistant
Home Assistant & Arlo cameras go together very well. I'm using them since our entire setup got migrated from OpenHab to Home Assistant and I'm happy with the integration. - · 5 min read 2730 views
Home Assistant: You have got mail
Today I want to share a little holiday project I am building this week: a mailbox sensor to make a dumb mailbox smart and notify us when we get new mail. I'm talking about real physical mail - letters, postcards, newspapers, etc. that get dropped into our mailbox.