Archive - Giordy’s journey in home automation (making mistakes so you don't)

A Tesla and automatic gate opening

(Much easier with my previous cars!)

Nov 28, 2024 •

May 2024

Sorting out some niggles

It’s been a while since I’ve written.

May 22, 2024 •

March 2024

Extracting start and stop times from the email

In my last post I said one of the improvements I wanted to make to my solar panels automation was to “Parse the Octopus free electricity email to…

Mar 4, 2024 •

January 2024

Solar panels - trying to make the most of them

I had the “misfortune” of installing solar panels at the start of November as the nights drew in.

Jan 7, 2024 •

November 2023

Solar panels - first steps

We recently had solar panels installed.

Nov 28, 2023 •

October 2023

AdGuard Home on my Home Assistant

This is a shortish article explaining my installation of AdGuard Home on my Home Assistant (HA) system.

Oct 27, 2023 •

Immersed in Octopus's free periods

Automatically exploiting Octopus Energy's free electricity periods.

Oct 11, 2023 •

July 2023

Untangling the Octopus

Using Home Assistant to work out if Octopus Energy's agile tariffs might be better for me.

Jul 26, 2023 •

My single pages dashboard

When I first started using Home Assistant, I did what probably most people new to it do and created a dashboard with everything on it.

Jul 16, 2023 •

June 2023

Upgrading from microSD to SSD

I’ve been rather quiet recently as I’ve been banging my head against a brick wall which I’ve finally broken through.

Jun 30, 2023 •

March 2023

I almost killed my wife - don't kill yours!

A short update on my lights toggle and an easy fix to not kill anyone.

Mar 10, 2023 •

February 2023

Two lights, one toggle to rule them all

How to ensure two lights are switched on and off together even if one is on/off and the the other is off/on

Feb 22, 2023 •

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