Home Assistant!

[richbee]

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, got a RPi4 a little while ago, but never got round to setting it up properly

[Krill]

I would appreciate anything you want to put together to show the journey for setting up the luxpower monitoring and control

[SimonSays]

In the case of Luxpower, I'd suggest using a second RPi running Solar Assistant to bridge between MQTT on Home Assistant and the local address of the Luxpower dongle, but note that Solar Assistant isn't free (as in price) or open source.
There is an open source solution which seems to do the same thing (minus Solar Assistant's own data collection and graphing): https://github.com/celsworth/lxp-bridge/

Either solution would enable IOG control over forced charging with a little additional automation.

I cant comment on the quality of either MQTT to LXP bridge as I have a Growatt inverter.

[shirehorse99]

good point on solar assistant Simon - if your inverter is covered then its a good option

[shirehorse99]

Do you plan on using it for lights and heating Stinsy? My Hue lights and Tado heating integrates straight into it as well so these automate easily if required.

are you going to use Zigbee or Wifi for sensors - zigbee works well when you have a lot of sensors.

better if you can use non cloud based setups for security

[Tinbum]

I seem to struggle with home assistant, probably because I just haven't used it enough.

I just have all my stuff just running in NodeRed which works brilliantly.

[knighty]

I've not done any automation stuff, but I have a bunch of little esp3266 boards running one wire temperature sensors in freezers at work

they're awesome, wifi so no cables back to server, you can wire in a load of temp sensors to the same 3 pins in parallel, and super cheap, esp3266 and temp sensors are a couple of quid each

then home assistant has a nice temperature display and makes night graphs for me, changes colour depending on the temperature etc.


I was setting up colour changing light bulbs to reflect the temperature of each freezer, but in the end it wasn't needed so didn't bother

[Stinsy]

I have some progress to report:

First go at building a dashboard. Grid power comes from my Octopus Mini, the heater consumption comes from their smartplugs.

[shirehorse99]

Good Job Stinsy, as you make your dashboard pages , add 1 as a test page only available to you - you can run your new tests into this and then move them on when you are happy - I have loads of dashboards - energy graphs- heating controls,cars,solar cctv etc.

[Andy]

I seem to struggle with home assistant, probably because I just haven't used it enough.

I just have all my stuff just running in NodeRed which works brilliantly.

Same