Mm true. We're about an hour from Newcastle. Most of the solar battery I'm talking will be setup/designed by me, like my current solar battery proof of concept setup (2 panels, car batteries, enough to power a shed). I'd envisaged mostly using small, cheap/easy to replace inverters etc for most circ...

Not sure which is the best forum for this, so here goes. Planning a new house build soon, and my thought was to run extra power cabling in house to create different circuits for low/medium/high draw appliances, with all separately breakered at the meter board. Then over time add more solar/battery a...

Fair enough. And if it adequately measured, sounds a lot simpler to just clip one on

Our house has a Saturn South ESBox, which was installed free some time ago (we qualified for something). It does a good job of capturing fairly real-time data (think it polls every 5 seconds, and I hacked it to pipe directly into my home automation every minute)

Just curious if you found a power meter solution? In the current ancient miners cottage house we live in, we got a Saturn South power monitoring thing installed in our meter box (by Our Green Home). I can check real time power at any time on their website dashboard, costs (if I've defined a tariff)...

Just curious if you found a power meter solution? In the current ancient miners cottage house we live in, we got a Saturn South power monitoring thing installed in our meter box (by Our Green Home). I can check real time power at any time on their website dashboard, costs (if I've defined a tariff)...

Just curious if you found a power meter solution? In the current ancient miners cottage house we live in, we got a Saturn South power monitoring thing installed in our meter box (by Our Green Home). I can check real time power at any time on their website dashboard, costs (if I've defined a tariff)...

We have planned a dedicated media/network cupboard, which will contain all hubs and routers and our printer. Other connected items, which must all be able to be controlled by our IOS devices (so-called internet of things) include: * smart thermostats * smart smoke/CO2 detectors * remote controlled ...

Hi, has anyone got somfy motors for your blinds/curtains? If so, have you found a way to operate the blinds without using the somfy remote or mylink app? Thanks, I haven't, however from memory openHAB has a Somfy plugin

Decided to go with Somfy thinking they are well known brand and will be easy to incorporate into the home automation eco system but I guess I am wrong... Somfy uses more proprietary stuff and not as easy to integrate as I thought... research continues.... As mentioned by picto, depends on your HA s...

Thanks, our current ancient miners cottage home gets by on a single 600VA UPS, however it has most of the tech concentrated near the line into the house so it's easy. Our UPS needs shouldn't be large - the power outages here are infrequent and likely only flicker to 1 duration. It just got frustrati...

Hey all, We're planning a build, and I'm doing the automation. In this I thought to include a decent UPS to support the automation options and keep the home server, link, etc up during an outage. My thoughts were that assuming we get 3 phase power we would use 2 phases for home zoning of power, spre...

My idea (just based on some of how our current old miners cottage home is), is a controllable curtain opener/closer. Not standard style (sideways slide open/closed) though - this "curtain" is a room separator in an opening that has no doorway. So I envisage it winding a spool tight which h...

Would there be enough interest if I start a thread on Roll Your Own HA devices (with RPi/Arduino/ESP etc)? I visit Whirlpool for more technical discussions but I will be very interested if you start a thread here... Ditto. Given new house build I suspect I'll soon be on here (almost) as much as my ...

Same here, I want to look at some arduino projects, just need to find time... Spending my spare time on voxcommando and eventghost but still not sure whether to progress with voice command or start using openhab/homeassistant to have a nice UI... Yeah I'll have to look at HomeAssistant. I've got op...

Yeah think I'll have to start seriously looking at some of the arduino projects. If I was in the USA I'd possibly consider cloud based weather data, however I've found AU ones seriously lacking. Wunderground has an API, and loads of contributing stations in AU Yeah I currently use Wunderground for ...

Same here, I want to look at some arduino projects, just need to find time... Spending my spare time on voxcommando and eventghost but still not sure whether to progress with voice command or start using openhab/homeassistant to have a nice UI... Yeah I'll have to look at HomeAssistant. I've got op...

Yeah think I'll have to start seriously looking at some of the arduino projects. If I was in the USA I'd possibly consider cloud based weather data, however I've found AU ones seriously lacking. The BOM is great for basic stuff, but after that data can get very off/old/aggregated Also I figured if I...

Yeah, not bad if i couple the wind sensor to the weather station. I wonder if they have a non zwave one (just standard wifi or ethernet connectivity). To date reading HA forums about zwave has made me leery of it's reliability/complexity, where my current wifi device tinkerings have been rock solid ...