I have an energy meter which is used by my Alfen Car Charge Station to measure our electrical usage. The Alfen Charge Station uses these measurements to charge the car only when my solar panels are producing. The energy meter is a Carlo Gavazzi EM24. More specific: EM24DINAV53XE1X. The manufacturer describes it as: Three-phase Energy […]
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Cupra Tavascan in Home Assistant
We recently received our new car. A Cupra Tavascan. As all cars these days it has an app for your phone. Which is fine. But it is just another app. When I am at home I just want to see everything in one place: Home Assistant. I use https://github.com/daernsinstantfortress/cupra_we_connect. Which I installed through HACS. And […]
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Raspberry Pi 5 Official case
Do not buy the Raspberry Pi Case for Raspberry Pi 5 of you intend to use a HAT. The website mentions: HATs can be mounted to the enclosure with stand-offs and GPIO header extenders Which means you can mount HATs, but they won’t be enclosed in the case. If you are looking for a simple […]
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P1 meter zonder Wi-Fi
Met de digitale meter kan je op een slimme manier je energie verbruik in kaart brengen. Wil je het realtime dan ben je aangewezen op toestellen die je in de P1 poort van je digitale meter kan pluggen. Er zijn al heel wat P1 meters beschikbaar, zoals bijvoorbeeld: Maar bij al deze toestellen is de […]
At home my Home Assistant instance runs on a Raspberry PI 4 in Docker. I wondered why my Home Assistant install was not up to date. I was using homeassistant/raspberrypi4-homeassistant as the image. But since 2023.7 these images don’t receive updates, as announced in the breaking changes section of the release notes. (which I did […]
In ons huis is er een Brink Renovent HR. Die kunnen we bedienen van in de badkamer met een 3 standen schakelaar. Handig is dat niet. En al zeker niet als je het wil aansturen via Home Assistant. Gelukkig heeft de Brink Renovent HR een OpenTherm connector, en kwam ik raf1000/brink_openhab tegen. Raf1000 heeft met […]
I want a notification if some lights, devices, … are on when nobody is home. An automation fires when any trigger becomes true. So a trigger per person that leaves is not an option. The zone entity state is the number of people in the zone. This is a good way to trigger an automation […]
At home I have Niko Home Control for traditional wiring installed. To control, automate my “smart home” I use Home Assistant“. Dimmed lights? Because I’m old I need to pee at 03:00. At night I want some lights to be dimmed instead of getting blinded by a light that is at full brightness. Niko Home […]
Onlangs hebben we thuis screens laten installeren om de warmte in zomer buiten te houden (dat werkt effectief). We kunnen de screens via een afstandsbediening aansturen, maar naast de afstandsbediening wil ik dat ook vanuit Home Assistant kunnen. Onze screens hebben een Somfy RTS sturing, Somfy RTS is een eigen protocol van Somfy … maar […]