I’m using the RPis in a few roles in relation to the solar panels. I collect daily solar production data from the inverter. The data is energy produced per hour. I also collect from Met Office model weather forecast data for our home location. This data is also per hour and I’m using 10+ parameters the forecast model provides. I learn every night a GP Regression model from the solar and weather forecast data. Learning every night ensures I always use the lates data available in the model. The GPR model allows me to estimate solar production tomorrow given a Met Office model forecast. I then use this estimate in various ways in decision-making, for example how much to use cheap electricity overnight to charge house and car batteries, i.e. how much headroom to leave in the batteries so that I’m unlikely to waste excess solar energy.
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In August? The climate change is not going quite as I expected.
Here are the main components of my system, which has become a bit of a collection over the years:
- Home Assistant on RPi
- zwave USB stick
- a number of lights, switches and multi sensors on the zwave network
- A cluster of four RPis for various scheduled and transient tasks (data ETL, solar energy forecast model training and forecast generation, house battery and EV charge planning and execution, scraping and processing council bin collection schedule)
- two RPis handling motorised curtains and cooling fans in home cinema
- three ESP2866s running ESPHome controlling relays for switching sauna, floor heating and water immersion heating on/off
- ten ESP32s running WLED controlling LED strips inside and out
The filet marinated overnight in a mix of HP sauce, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce. The file was in sous vide in 50 C for just over three hours and finalised on the coal BBQ. The end result was great if just a bit over cooked for what I was aiming for.
There are a lot of people like me who are deeply envious of people who somehow just drifted away from alcohol.
The government should in my view be investing much more to insulating houses, installing heat pumps, and installing solar panels with house batteries. These measures should be within reach of all households.
I’m deeply annoyed when somebody calls me on FaceTime. Go away! I can just about bring myself to answering a call from people in my contacts, sometimes. Or perhaps I’m just turning into a recluse.
They load the clip in, omnicolor, said they pack the nine, fire it at prime time, sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz, and mothafuckas lost their minds
A magical moment that is! We had a rescue cat that took over two years before she came to my lap.
That’s it, somewhere to prepare for ‘bigger and better’ things. Which also says they are not taking the culture secretary role seriously. Some might say there is evidence they are not taking many (any?) ministerial roles with the seriousness those roles deserve.
We got a rescue on Friday. He is now called Ronnie (after Ronnie James Dio) and he is learning to get along with our first dog Myles (after Myles Kennedy). They are Spanish water dogs, and as luck would have it, turns out Ronnie is Myles’ nephew.
Neither has any bit marks yet and there’s only been two sketchy moments. It looks like they are settling down nicely to a life in the same home.
This is Ronnie:
This is Myles:
The wait was too long so it became Thursday BBQ instead. In my defence the weather was really nice this evening where we are. Chicken thighs and halloumi pepper skewers with a Mediterranean potato salad and a salad of various greens from the fridge.
For a very brief moment I considered turning my experience in home energy management into a business. Then I woke up and realised I’d be facing either house retrofitting or new build business, and all the companies involved in those. Nope.