I am quite the Grafana fan and was thrilled when I found this great Tesla Powerwall Dashboard on Github. It provides interesting and quite detailed information about the Tesla Powerwall such as: Examples Energy Usage / live monitoring Live Power…
About a month ago I started my little project of figuring out how I can get data from my smart energy controller “Solar Manager” onto my Tidbyt device. For the technical details you can check out this blog post here:…
Tidbyt is a great little device that can display a lot of interesting information on a nice and big retro pixel screen. I’ve been using it for a couple of months and always wanted to also display some energy usage…
Last week saw a very nice looking visualization of driving data from another Tesla owner which was done with the “Teslamate” data logger tool. The data visualization is done using Grafana, which I already know from another project I realized…
In my home we have a bunch of stand alone lamps that are controlled using a myStrom wifi switch. We also have a couple of Philips HUE controlled bulbs as well as LED strips. In order to control these lights…
Before I decided to purchase the myStrom devices I had been using smart switches from a dutch company called “Plugwise”. At the time they did not offer a mobile app to control / setup the devices but only offered a…
Years ago I used to have a handful of single external drives connected to my Mac where I kept all my data as well as backups. This became rather tedious after a while so I decided to switch to a…
I had been using energy monitoring plugs from a company called Plugwise for years. Then I saw the new Smappee Energy Monitor that magically and automatically discovers the appliances in your home based on their individual “power signature”. This all…