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Archive of posts filed under the Home Automation category.
Flush-mounting the Reclaim v2 control unit
Our old hot water system died recently, and we jumped at the opportunity to replace it with a new Heat Pump unit, specifically the Reclaim.
Our quest for the perfect light switch
We’re not even twelve months into our KNX journey, but we already have devices from over ten manufacturers of KNX gear all happily coexisting throughout the house. One of the first decisions we had to make was the choice of light switches. We had a few criteria, the main one being that the switches needed …
Review: Brightgreen Day Shift LEDs
I’ve written before about the lousy state of the lighting in the new home we bought last year. Fortunately we moved in during Summer, so the days were long and the need for lighting minimal. Early in the research phase someone introduced me to the concept of Human Centric Lighting, and I was hooked. That …
Why KNX?
In What is this Home Automation stuff anyway? i mentioned the primitive electrical state of our new home. Whilst there were separate circuits for the fridge and wall oven, the rest of the two-storey house was fed with 1 lighting circuit and 1 power circuit per floor. Individual residual current breakers? No chance. The lighting …
What is this Home Automation stuff anyway?
At the start of 2022, Rocky and I bought a new home and moved in. (It’s 15 years old but it’s new to us.) To say it was rather devoid of technology was an understatement. It was almost entirely devoid of *lighting*, FFS! We’ve spent the year thus far making it a comfortable little “tech …
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Get-WeatherLinkData.ps1
We’ve had a Davis Instruments Vantage Vue weather station on the roof for some time now, and with the addition of the “WeatherLinkIP datalogger” its data is uploaded to the greater Davis WeatherLink platform automatically. Their service is subscription-based, and we’ve not seen sufficient value in giving them ~AUD5/month to have access to the historical data, …