How I set up Home Assistant to tell me the remaining runtime on my home solar battery system.
Can I put a solar panel on the roof of my shed and use it to power my server farm, or will I just waste all my money?
Let’s make the Internet of Things a bit more useful, and less like The Internet of Turd by hacking some smart plugs so they no longer phone home to China.
This week I have literally been hacking smart home devices. With a Dremel and a knife… To see why you’ll have to wait for a video coming out sometime this month or next month depending on the post. The short version is I want these to run Tasmota instead of the Tuya firmware they come…
I’ve managed to get Home Assistant working out how much the energy produced by my solar system would cost me off the grid.