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Going Green: SolarEdge & Home Assistant
The third part of my Our Own Electricity series describes how I integrated our photovoltaic system into Home Assistant. - · 5 min read
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. - · 6 min read
Going Green: Installing a Solar System
This one has been in my draft folder for a few weeks. Our photovoltaic system was installed in spring 2020 and I wanted to report on it earlier. I finally had some time to finish the article over the... - · 5 min read
Green grass with Home Assistant
Home Assistant controlled garden watering part 2 - are you ready? In my previous post, I explained how I measured the level of water in our garden cistern using ESPHome. In this post, I will describe... - · 6 min read
Water tank monitoring with ESPHome
Watering your 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. - · 6 min read
Arlo Cameras in Home Assistant
Home Assistant & Arlo cameras go better very well. I'm using it since our entire setup got migrated from OpenHab to Home Assistant and I'm happy with the setup. - · 3 min read
Home Assistant: You have got mail
Today I want to share a little holiday project I build this week: a mailbox sensor to make a dumb mailbox smart and notifying us if we got new mail. I’m talking about real physical mail here - letters, postcards, newspapers etc. dropped into our mailbox.