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Home Assistant Energy Dashboard
Introduction As a home owner who has invested in Solar PV and Solar Thermal technology for my house; that is also a Home Assistant enthusiast, I have long had the ambition to create a Home Energy dashboard using Home Assistant. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, hacking, Home Assistant, Python, Raspberry PI
Tagged energy-dashboard, homeassistant, raspberrypi
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Internet Radio from Broken Bose Dockstation (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a blog post, in Part 1 I introduced the project and covered the electronics and software design. In this final part I will cover the hardware build and software installation. Hardware build. All of the … Continue reading
Internet Radio from broken Bose Dockstation (Part 1)
I was inspired by the project listed in the January 2021 MagPi magazine where David Hunt built a “BOSEBerry Pi” audio / internet radio player, using a second hand BOSE Dockstation, Pi Zero W, DAC and AMP and thought I … Continue reading
Monitoring Room Temperatures with Moteino’s and Raspberry Pi
Read about my latest use of Pi and Arduino Here. and you can also produce data like this: .
Posted in Energy, hacking, Raspberry PI
Tagged central heating, DS18B20, heating, highcharts, LowPowerLab, moteino, Pi, Python, Raspberry Pi, room, temperature, usb
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Home Energy Centre using Raspberry Pi and Nook Simple Touch
Introduction Following on from using a Raspberry Pi to capture the electricity consumption of my home, I have over the last 2 years installed Solar Thermal Hot Water panels and very recently Solar PV. This meant that I had an … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, hacking, Raspberry PI, tinkering
Tagged BS/4, C, Home Energy Center, Home Energy Centre, Home Energy Console, Home Energy Display, Nook, Nook Manager, Owl, Owl Intuition, Pi, Pygame, Python, Raspberry Pi, Resol, root, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, VBUS
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Monitoring Home Electricity Consumption with a Raspberry Pi – part 2
1. What you need A Raspberry Pi A Current Cost Meter A RJ45 to USB converter cable 2. Setting Up the Raspberry Pi Install the latest version of the Rasbian image onto a suitable SD card, insert into the Pi, … Continue reading
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Monitoring Home Electricity Consumption with a Raspberry Pi – part 1
Preamble A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be given a Current Cost Energy Meter like the one in the photos below. This type of device comes with a Hall Effect Sensor which goes around the Live … Continue reading
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Raspberry Pi Projects
Well I have owned a Raspberry Pi’ (c) for a year now and I find them fantastic. As someone who grew up with a BBC Micro (Model A upgraded by me to a B) when I was a teenager and spent many … Continue reading
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Tagged pi python energy monitoring BBC micro
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