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MHI-AC-Ctrl
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home-assistant-glow
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Home Assistant 2023.11
Seconding this. I was able to just run it with docker compose on a cheap mini PC and it chugs away happily, interfacing with all manner of devices (Phillips/Lifx/IKEA/Airpurifier/Bunnings brands). Only gets tricky to set up devices when you're dealing with some hostile cloud based gadget that doesn't want to play nice.
Unbelievable it can all be controlled offline using Siri on an iPhone, or other voice assistants.
It can even display your electricity consumption by counting the LED pulses on your smart electricity meter that fires every 1000th of a kw/h, only takes a cheap ESP32 and a photodiode: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow
Such a wonderful project.
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How can I monitor my energy usage? I.e. connect to home assistant? I live in a rental apartment and this is the main board.
You want to build this https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow
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Selfhosted solution to measure energy consumption in an apartment
Alternatively if you want to measure your overall energy consumption and aren't too worried what is generating the load, then I would suggest looking into the Home Assistant Glow project on github (https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow) - assuming you have a suitable electricity meter - for a couple of pounds you can put together a light sensitive diode and an ESP8266 (or similar) to create a device to sit over the flashing light on the meter to calculate usage. I have found it pretty accurate - it seems to match my billed usage pretty closely (within 3-5kw per month).
- Energiezähler mit WLAN, aber ohne Cloud-Schmarrn
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Power meter, where to put the pulse reader?
Check out Home Assistant Glow for a similar DIY device.
- Domotica: leggere contatori enel per home-assistant
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My electricity provider’s consumption interface wasn’t flexible enough, so I went for the jugular and started retrieving real-time usage by attaching a photoresistor to my meter’s light that blinks 1000 times per kilowatt-hour.
If folks want to make one of these theirselves (themselves? whatever), the "home assistant glow" project makes it pretty straightforward: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow (I can never find the link, so I might as well drop it here). It uses ESPHome + a config file + a photo-diode thingy. It's more or less the same thing with a photoresistor. The server-side works easiest with Home Assistant, but you can access the device on its own too.
- trying too setup the non invasive power meter got the diode reporting back the flashes per minute what do I need too do too convert this into a usable measurement I know the led on my meter flashes 3200 times for 1KWH
- Any off-the-shelf solution to measure electricity consumption from an electro-mechanical meter?
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Beginner questions: How to integrate CustomComponents into the source tree, proper setup of dev-environment.
I have two questions: I already have my DIY MultiSensor hardware that was built around an ESP8266. It's main functionality is to count power pulses from my power meter via an LDR, and the hardware seems to run fine. I am aware of the Glow project, https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow , but for some reason this didn't play well with my self-created hardware. Also, I do think that my measure algorithm has a slight advantage, but that's not the point here :)
MHI-AC-Ctrl
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Home Assistant 2023.11
Yep, I'm relatively new to Home Assistant but love it. Combined with ESPHome, I've got most of the lights in my house controlled (via switch changes, not smart bulbs), and my all my air conditioners via the MHI-AC-Ctrl project[1,2] (which is fantastic - ordered the boards from JLC-PCB, parts from Ali-Express, told ESPHome to program everything and plugged them into the ports and...it all just worked!).
Just got a Mitsubishi Electric (which is different to MHI) and a Daikin at my parents house to get online - but code for both exists and I suspect the MHI boards can be reprogrammed to fulfill the role without any hardware changes.
It's incredible that the future we wanted in like, 2010 can be had and had without selling your soul to the cloud: I can leave the house, and turn off all my lights and AC's while walking out the door, or get notified if I've left my garage open - without a single cloud provider dependency, all open-source.
[1] https://github.com/absalom-muc/MHI-AC-Ctrl/
[2] https://github.com/ginkage/MHI-AC-Ctrl-ESPHome
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My mini splits run ESPhome now!
https://github.com/absalom-muc/MHI-AC-Ctrl Although Mitsubishi HI (heavy industries) is a different company to Mitsubishi so may not work
What are some alternatives?
esphome-water-meter - Measurement of water consumption directly from your water meter with a TCRT5000 like sensor and ESPHome.
MHI-AC-Ctrl-ESPHome - ESPHome integration for MHI-AC-Ctrl project
AI-on-the-edge-device - Easy to use device for connecting "old" measuring units (water, power, gas, ...) to the digital world
esphome-mitsubishiheatpump - ESPHome Climate Component for Mitsubishi Heatpumps using direct serial connection
esphome-idasen-desk-controller - ESPHome component for Ikea Idasen desk control
ratgdo
esphome-dlms-meter - ESPHome component to read out DLMS smart meters via M-Bus
regelwerk - regelwerk: a collection of behaviors (rules) for my MQTT-driven smart home. Published as an example, not as an active project.
chessclock
HeatPump - Arduino library to control Mitsubishi Heat Pumps via connector cn105
esphome-custom-component-examples
midea-ac-py - Home Assistant custom integration to control Midea (and associated brands) air conditioners via LAN.