Have you ever been interested in the current EEX or more correctly the EPEX SPOT prices? If so, you quite certainly stumbled over the EPEX SPOT Home or the Energy…
EEX, EPEX SPOT And The Real Net-(In)transparency
Just Do It – How To Create Your Own Home Assistant Add-On – Part 1
Since quite some time, I ever wanted to automate the process of creating the annual bills for the renters of the one half of my house. I also integrated the…
Limiting EV Charge SOC with go-echarger and Home Assistant – Update
How to limit charging to a predefined SOC with go-echarger and Home Assistant if your car does not support this feature.
wmBus Meters And How To Get It Into Home Assistant
Recently, I decided to switch over to Home Assistant due to instability of iobroker. Maybe I had too many adapters, slaves or what else... Somehow it did not function properly…
Integrating wmBus devices into iobroker
Since I've replaced ioBroker with Home Assistant, I also wrote an article about integrating M-Bus devices via MQTT with HASS. Another post, doing the same with wmBus can be found…
The Magic Of Absolute Humidity
Introduction When we moved from our flat to our house back in 2015, I soon realized, that the old part of the house (built in the fifties) has some problems…
Merging the Contents of Two InfluxDBs
Eveer had the problem that data runs into two different influx databases and you want to merge the data into a single one? You wonder, why this can happen? Then…
How to build a Smart Home
Since everbody complains about smart homes are vendor lock in, too expensive, giving you data for free to some suspecting cloud provider,... I need to preset my smart home solution…