I have been tearing my hair out the last couple of weeks while trying to set up a nice Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant. When I thought everything was working fine, I suddenly got consumption values and cost multiplied by…
Category: Home Assistant
Is your energy provider not giving easy access to energy prices? Costly, difficult or impossible to get access to an API? Tired of checking web sites for updated information, or missing out on changes silently published? Change Detection might be…
To keep track of energy cost and consumption in Home Assistant, an excellent tool to use is the Energy Dashboard. One thing a bit tricky with this is to track daily subscription cost. Most subscriptions are monthly, and I have…
Our garage door opener is a Somfy Dexxo Pro that is communicating via RTS. This means there is no return information from the motor on whether the garage door is open or closed. In Home Assistant the Garage Door Device…
We have an Itron Water Meter with an Everblu Cyble optical reader. The water company is regularly (every 2-3 months) passing in the street with their car, and a computer sends a radio signal to every meter (using a unique…
My production Proxmox-server is never really running on idle. Frigate Video Surveillance and Home Assistant is pretty much keeping the server at around 8-10% CPU usage. 24 hours average power consumption has been around 50-54 Watts. A few factors that…
I have put a Bluetooth Light Energy (BLE) Beacon on my trash can, and use the signal strength to determine if the distance between my Bluetooth unit and the beacon has changed. I have tried various solutions to read the…
With a little bit of planning when setting up the various sensors to be used in energy consumption tracking in Home Assistant, the Energy Dashboard can be a great tool. Depending on where you live and what sensors you have…
At home I rarely walk around with my phone in the hand. In order to get information from Home Assistant I have a wall mounted tablet in the bathroom, and a Google Nest Home in the corridor that I pass…
Initially I started using Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnel as an Addon in Home Assistant, with the configuration of the connector done in Home Assistant. This worked fine most of the time, but obviously caused problems when Home Assistant was restarted, down for maintenance, etc.