Looking at the illustration I wonder if it's a tool like what my hand grinder uses to change discs. Almost like a fork but with 2 tines

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…

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…

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…

As far as it goes Our Green Home (OGH) works well - it's rarely been down and provides a simple, pretty interface for querying power usage history and real time.…

I think if I were hunting an option for a new build, I'd be looking for things that monitor power from where it comes into the house, although I'd also…

I'm in NSW, but yeah I got the meter free as part of some qualifying household thing being offered. I don't know much about the "smart meters" being offered by…

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…

I haven't, however from memory openHAB has a Somfy plugin

As mentioned by picto, depends on your HA system. Never worked with Somfy myself (yet, build prep in progress), however openHAB (my favourite HA system) has plugins specifically to work…

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…

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,…

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"…

Ditto. Given new house build I suspect I'll soon be on here (almost) as much as my wife is.

Nah, it's a fair way of doing things - I've played with IFTTT somewhat myself before opting for a local HA server setup for the home. I just want it…

Yeah I currently use Wunderground for wind data, and it's pretty good if the internet's up

Yeah I'll have to look at HomeAssistant. I've got openHAB 1.8 running great, however from what I can see of openHAB 2 it looks just the same as 1.8 as…

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…

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…

Hey, can't see a way to search within specific forums on here, so...
Weather station options to hook into home automation?
Sure I could go Netatmo etc however by the time you…

Not IN Huntlee, but we're planning a build 1-2km away

Hey all,
Been reading this thread with interest as it's an area I like to tinker with. We're in the process of starting a new house build (still negotiating the tender),…