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Jan/24

Moes Zigbee Thermostat

Filed Under Hardware at 1st January 2024 0:01 by

Overview I have an electric underfloor heating in one of the rooms. It uses the old version of the ProWarm Pro Digital Thermostat. It has the usual controls for a non connected thermostat such as schedule and manual heating controls. … Continue reading →

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Nov/22

“Real Time” Solar / Energy Dashboard

Filed Under Blog, Home Automation at 7th November 2022 0:01 by

Summary Home Assistant introduced an energy dashboard in 2021.8. Whilst useful and offers a quick setup, it lags an hour behind due to the way it presents data. So I set out to create my own “real time” dashboard. I … Continue reading →

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Mar/16

Windows 10 Waking From Sleep

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2016 0:01 by

Overview Since switching to Windows 10 I have been seeing the computer being woken up from sleep from random events here are some of the things I looked at to solve the wake up issue. Setup Set the computer to … Continue reading →

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Jan/10

Windows 7 Monitor Power Test

Filed Under Windows at 27th January 2010 10:28 by

There is a report generator in Microsoft Windows 7 which can help you track down what is being used in terms of power. The report tells you what is stopping the computer going into sleep mode (if sleep mode is … Continue reading →

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Dec/09

energy@home Project Update v0.4a

Filed Under energy@home, Software at 6th December 2009 0:43 by

It’s been a while since I have mentioned the project energy@home I have been working on so I thought I’d share the latest picture of what it looks like. I will soon be tagging and release a new version with … Continue reading →

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Oct/09

energy@home Mention On GNC#518

Filed Under energy@home, Podcast Shoutout at 10th October 2009 23:14 by

I sent in an Email to Todd on the Geek News Central Podcast and he kindly linked my project in his show notes which can be found here. You can hear the recording on episode 518 around 1 hour 13 … Continue reading →

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Sep/09

Energy@Home Released On Google Code

Filed Under energy@home, Software at 8th September 2009 22:40 by

I have formally uploaded and started using Google Code to host my energy monitor I’m using / developing. It has been released under the GPL license so feel free to take a look at my messy code and leave some … Continue reading →

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Aug/09

Recording CurrentCost Data & Viewing It On The Web

Filed Under Linux, Software, Website at 16th August 2009 18:20 by

Overview I have (finally) got my project to a working stage so I thought I’d write a bit about it. After buying a CurrentCost CC128 device I was not happy with the software on the Internet for extracting the data. … Continue reading →