It's your 24 hour reminder - State of the Open Home 2025 is *tomorrow*!!
This is your final reminder, so be sure to hit that 
to get notified when we go live @ 18:00 GMT / 20:00 CEST / 14:00 EDT!
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://youtube.com/live/o4Vctz1_KYE
I think I have finally sorted my “Octopus Intelligent Go drains home battery” issue using Home Assistant. We’ll know tonight. Two additional writes per Octopus Charging cycle. Wonder how long until the Inverter ROM get fubared! #Solax #Solar #EV #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation
Nice little trick to improve the WiFi on your #ESP32 boards with PCB antenna. The improvement is clearly visible 
https://peterneufeld.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/esp32-c3-supermini-antenna-modification/
I just wrote a blogpost about the system that I've designed to optimise our power consumption so that we can do everything with a 25 A main fuse.
There are an increasing number of networked devices switching things on and off at the best time to consume the cheapest and most abundant electricity.
https://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2025/03/optimising-energy-usage-so-we-can-do.html
#arduino #esp32 #homeautomation #energyconservation #dynamictariff
I never worried about my #Alexa before. But now that they’ll be always on and streaming to Amazon, I’ve ordered one of these to try with #HomeAssistant.
I get so much use out of shopping lists and timers, in addition to #homeautomation. I hope there are ways to get that functionality.
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Home-Assistant-Voice-p-6998.html
We're Matter certified!! 
We've been ahead of the game with Matter implementation, and we're excited to announce both Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server are officially certified by the CSA. 
What does this mean for you? Find out on our blog 
#SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03/10/matter-certification/
(New server, new #introduction .)
I'm a newcomer to #portland #pdx. I moved here after living in #austin #austinTX for over 30 years.
I'm interested in #openSource #linux #selfHosted #homeAutomation #homeAssistant
I advocate for #civicTech #openData #communityTech
I like #libraries #classicalGuitar
I occasionally post photos of #cooking, #bread, #pizza, and Franklin the #cat. You're welcome.
Bigger stepper installed and now my “steam punk” Blind controller is working! It’s slow as hell but it saves me climbing over my work bench to let some light into the room! Still need to mount the driver board and ESP32 but it’s mostly done!
Heimspeicher & #Balkonsolar können unser #Stromnetz entlasten, Kosten senken & Notstrom bieten – doch Bürokratie & fehlende Anreize bremsen sie aus.
Das ändern wir mit unserer Petition: https://balkon.solar/Petition2
Wir fordern:
#Smartmeter Light einführen (ohne Rückkanale, wesentlich günstiger
Speicher wie #Balkonsolar behandeln
Freiwillige variable Netzentgelte für kleine Speicher (damit lohnt es sich sogar einen Speicher ohne PV zu nutzen!)
Transparente #Netzentgelte & #Strompreise für alle!
Was bringt das? Steckerspeicher können netzdienlich arbeiten, euch Notstrom liefern & eure #Stromrechnung senken! Der #Smartmeter - Rollout wird für kleine Haushalte günstiger, sicherer & schneller.
Aktuell ist es kompliziert einen Speicher anzumelden, die meisten tun es nicht.
Freiwillige variable #Netzentgelte helfen, das Netz zu entlasten & Speicher profitabler zu machen!
Damit wird sogar ein Speicher ohne #Solar finanziell echt spannend!
Transparente Netzentgelte & Strompreise: Verbraucher haben aktuell keine Möglichkeit auf die Netzentgelte zuzugreifen. Wir fordern eine offene API über z.B. smard.de damit OpenSource und andere Projekte überhaupt eine Chance haben.
Wir arbeiten weiter fleißig an den Haushaltssimulatoren für den #Badencampus #Hackathon im Rahmen unseres „netzdienliche Kleinspeicher“ Projekt, das von der DBU finanziert wird.
Danke an #Shelly fürs Sponsoren der Shellys.
Video of the Badger up and running showing multiple sensors and controlling smart home devices via its buttons!
Exciting! I have my Pimoroni Badger 2040W working in ESPHome including the buttons and display! You can see the code here:
Don't think I'll ever buy Shelly gear again, so disappointing. Their relays break down after a few years, and their thermostat valves just discharge within a day from time to time. Went alright for a couple of months, but lately a few of them do this weekly. Customer service is useless, and, oh, their country is going full pro-russia & anti-lgbtqia+.
Today’s #HomeAutomation own-goal: Having my bedroom light switch on when my phone connects to the house WiFi. I did not account for my iPhone updating and rebooting itself at 2.30am…
Trying to figure out a good use case for the action button on my #iphone
I currently just have it open my audiobook app, but that feels like such a waste.. I’ve got a #homeassistant server, so the #homeautomation usecases are endless..
What I really wish was that there was a non-hacky way to support different types of inputs (single press, double click, long press, etc).
Any ideas?
Thought I might already have a ZigBee hub but actually it's an old 433Mhz device. Might be able to get something that works with that I guess. I don't seem to have any buttons for it, just a door sensor and a motion sensor. I got these to replace some functionality of a H̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶A̶l̶e̶r̶t̶ AlertMe system back when H̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶A̶l̶e̶r̶t̶ AlertMe went bust (anyone else remember HomeAlert, we still have a box full of their stuff lol... keep meaning to take it apart and see if I can so anything with it.)
Also apparently the Phillips hue bridge thing we have might be able to talk to non-Phillips zigbee stuff. I don't think I've got anything to test that out with but I guess I could order a button and find out, someone pointed me at Ikea - and this SOMRIG button seems a good option and is cheap: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/somrig-shortcut-button-white-smart-70560347/
Probably I'm hoping for too much wanting batteryless stuff, doesn't seem to be quite out there enough yet. I was thinking of the Qinitiq stuff in particular.
